var w *os.File
	if sync {
		// Perform DirectIO along with fdatasync for larger xl.meta, mostly when
		// xl.meta has "inlined data" we prefer writing O_DIRECT and then doing
		// fdatasync() at the end instead of opening the file with O_DSYNC.
		//
		// This is an optimization mainly to ensure faster I/O.
		if len(b) > xioutil.DirectioAlignSize {
			r := bytes.NewReader(b)