defer updateOSMetrics(osMetricCreate, name)(err)
	return os.Create(name)
}

// Fdatasync captures time taken to call Fdatasync
func Fdatasync(f *os.File) (err error) {
	fn := ""
	if f != nil {
		fn = f.Name()
	}
	defer updateOSMetrics(osMetricFdatasync, fn)(err)
	return disk.Fdatasync(f)
}

// report returns all os metrics.
func (o *osMetrics) report() madmin.OSMetrics {

**In our tests we also found ext4 does not honor POSIX O_DIRECT/Fdatasync semantics, ext4 trades performance for consistency guarantees. Please avoid ext4 in your setup.**

	flags := os.O_CREATE | os.O_WRONLY | os.O_TRUNC

	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 {