Comment 7 for bug 966671

Sam, that sounds like a good idea. Couple of questions:

Do we know all of the xattrs that need to be written before all the data is given to us? I had thought that we don't always know the content length, or something like that. In that case, we can fall back to the previous behavior.

And don't forget the fsync at the end before the close and the rename. :)