HDFS-5337. should do hsync for a commit request even there is no pending writes. Contributed by Brandon Li

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/common/trunk@1530835 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
Merge remote branch 'origin/trunk' into trunk-gd
Merge remote branch 'origin/trunk-gd' into fb-HADOOP-9078-trunk-gd