(Mark Callaghan) MySQL 5.6 has a new option for innodb_flush_method. When O_DIRECT_NO_FSYNC is used then fsync is not done after writes. This was a response to feature request 45892. Unfortunately this option as implemented and documented is not safe to use with XFS.
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