Better than POSIX?

Even if you go the POSIX way, many cheap disk drives lie to the system saying the data is on the disk plater when it's still on it's internal buffers. So even that can not guarantee you the operation is atomic.

An anecdotal case some years ago was Windows 98 corrupting the disk on "modern" PCs, because the hardware was so much faster than the disk flushing. When windows was shutdown it would kill the power before the disk finished buffering it's writes, corrupting the file system.

The only solution was to add some wait time before killing the power.