Accelerate append write for cacheRemoteRevalidating gofer mount
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Append write for cacheRemoteRevalidating gofer mount is a heavy operation, as it needs asking the gofer for file size firstly.
To accelerate it, we propose to leverage the non-posix behavisor to linux. According to man 2 pwrite:
```
POSIX requires that opening a file with the O_APPEND flag should have no effect on the
location at which pwrite() writes data. However, on Linux, if a file is opened with
O_APPEND, pwrite() appends data to the end of the file, regardless of the value of offset.
```
For VFS1, we can introduce an appendHandles aside already-existing readHandles and writeHandles.
But for VFS2, it seems that it's redesigned to keep only one handle for all operations.
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