Temporary files: RAM or disk?

> To be fair, O_SYNC is much stronger than what some people might reasonably want to expect.
> O_SYNC means every write request is safe before the write system call returns.
Hm. Not sure if that really is what people expect. But I can certainly see why it would be useful for some applications. Should probably be a fd option or such though? I would be really unhappy if a rm -rf or copy -r would behave that way.

Sometimes I wish userspace controllable metadata transactions where possible with a sensible effort/interface...