Why is there a huge difference in disk I/O performance with different ioengines using FIO?

Solution Verified - Updated 2024-01-06T15:31:26+00:00 -

Issue

FIO performance benchmarking test results differ from one ioengine to another.
Why does libaio randwrite(w/s) perform many times better than sync?

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