FileOutputStream questions

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I have just realised I do not understand some basic things about
unbuffered FileOutputStream.

I used them in two ways, wrapping in a BufferedOutputStream or
BufferedWriter, or writing an entire file in one i/o without
buffering.

If you write single bytes at a time, will you trigger physical I/O on
every byte, or is there some small buffer in there anyway?

I have experimented with flush during file write. The file size stays
at 0 until I close, at least to DIR. 

What I want is to log bytes that will be largely recoverable even if
the program terminates unexpectedly without closing. Flush does not do
it.  Close/reopen periodically seem at bit heavy handed. Is there
something I am missing?
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FileOutputStream questions Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-12-25 06:36 -0800
  Re: FileOutputStream questions markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2012-12-25 07:54 -0800
    Re: FileOutputStream questions Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-12-26 01:30 -0800
  Re: FileOutputStream questions Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2012-12-25 18:32 +0200
  Re: FileOutputStream questions Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2012-12-25 11:45 -0800
    Re: FileOutputStream questions Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-12-26 01:32 -0800
      Re: FileOutputStream questions Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2012-12-26 09:19 -0800
  Re: FileOutputStream questions Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-12-25 13:17 -0800
    Re: FileOutputStream questions Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2012-12-25 14:05 -0800
      Re: FileOutputStream questions Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-12-26 01:35 -0800
      Re: FileOutputStream questions markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2012-12-26 07:46 -0800
    Re: FileOutputStream questions Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net> - 2013-01-01 02:36 +0200

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