There's some awkward wording in the fsync(2) manpage where a sentence
switches to past tense for a hypothetical and reads "after the system
crashed or was rebooted". This is in man-pages version 4.13. Here's a
proposed fix:
diff --git a/man2/fsync.2 b/man2/fsync.2
index 8b4bc0019..4fbe2cfc8 100644
--- a/man2/fsync.2
+++ b/man2/fsync.2
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ transfers ("flushes") all modified in-core data of
file referred to by the file descriptor
.I fd
to the disk device (or other permanent storage device) so that all
-changed information can be retrieved even after the system crashed or
-was rebooted.
+changed information can be retrieved even if the system crashes or
+is rebooted.
This includes writing through or flushing a disk cache if present.
The call blocks until the device reports that the transfer has completed.
It also flushes metadata information associated with the file (see
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