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You can do something like that, but you still need to be able to tell your OS when you want to sync what writes to disk.

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Yes the situation sounds similar to regular files to me. Iiuc mmap can implicitly sync to files, but it is only guaranteed after unmapped (akin to closing a file) or an explicit call to msync (akin to fflush).

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