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I'm very confused by this thread.
Progress bars are handled by the applications themselves, whether flushing happens or not;
immediate flushing does not increase storage lifespan, in fact letting the OS decide when to do it may allow wear-leveling to work better.
(Though, IMO immediate flushing should be the default for removable media on user-friendly distributions, like swap partitions are)
Yes, but OS must tell the application how much of the operation is done
I was trying to say the opposite. Caching/buffering is what longers the lifespan and can speed system up