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The `writer.finish()` methods already fsync the inode, using
`VirtualFile::sync_all()`.
All that the callers need to do is fsync their directory, i.e., the
timeline directory.
Note that there's a call in the new compaction code that is apparently
dead-at-runtime, so, I couldn't fix up any fsyncs there
[Link](502b69b33b/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline/compaction.rs (L204-L211)).
Note that layer durability still matters somewhat, even after #5198
which made remote storage authoritative.
We do have the layer file length as an indicator, but no checksums on
the layer file contents.
So, a series of overwrites without fsyncs in the middle, plus a
subsequent crash, could cause us to end up in a state where the file
length matches but the contents are garbage.
part of https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/6663