Your knowledge on the topic is commendable. But I do wonder how can you solve this in a comprehensive manner, once and for all? Barring writing a driver that uses disk in their raw form (block devices?) then I am not sure you can protect against the kernel and the existing drivers trying to be too smart and too helpful, and crippling proper database performance as a result – which as you alluded to is an old and known problem.
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