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> data actually did make it to the media, I wouldn't necessary assume
> that it has.  Given that it sounds like you really care about this,
> I'd suggest that you explicitly testing this before making
> assumptions.

FreeBSD 6.1 appears to get it right for some subsets of devices so it
seems a reasonable assumption at first glance - I did actually look the
BSD bits up to check.