[ahoka]

Getting into an inconsistent state does not just mean “losing a few seconds”.

[weiliddat]

How would you get into an inconsistent state based on an fsync change?

Edit: I meant what sequence of events would cause etcd to go into an inconsistent state when fsync is working this way

[_ananos_]

data corruption, since fsync on the host is essentially a noop. The VM fs thinks data is persistent on disk, but it’s not - the pod running on the VM thinks the same …