Java Really force file sync/flush

转自：http://stackoverflow.com/questions/730521/really-force-file-sync-flush-in-java

How can data written to a file really be flushed/synced with the block device by Java.

I tried this code with NIO:

FileOutputStream s = new FileOutputStream(filename)
Channel c = s.getChannel()
while(xyz)
    c.write(buffer)
c.force(true)
s.getFD().sync()
c.close()

I supposed that c.force(true) togehter with s.getFD().sync() should be sufficient because the doc forforce states

Forces any updates to this channel's file to be written to the storage device that contains it. If this channel's file resides on a local storage device then when this method returns it is guaranteed that all changes made to the file since this channel was created, or since this method was last invoked, will have been written to that device. This is useful for ensuring that critical information is not lost in the event of a system crash.

The documentation to sync states:

Force all system buffers to synchronize with the underlying device. This method returns after all modified data and attributes of this FileDescriptor have been written to the relevant device(s). In particular, if this FileDescriptor refers to a physical storage medium, such as a file in a file system, sync will not return until all in-memory modified copies of buffers associated with this FileDesecriptor have been written to the physical medium. sync is meant to be used by code that requires physical storage (such as a file) to be in a known state.