nosync is a small preload library that can be used to disable
synchronization of file's content with storage devices on GNU/Linux.
It works by overriding implementations of certain standard functions
like fsync or open.
nosync is free software. You can redistribute and/or modify it under the terms of Apache License Version 2.0.
The author of nosync is Mikolaj Izdebski.
make install prefix=/target/location
LD_PRELOAD=/target/location/lib/nosync/nosync.so command
nosync works by overloading the following functions:
fdatasync,fsync,msync,open,open64,sync,sync_file_range.