[erlang-questions] mnesia sync_transactions not fsynced?

[Matthew Sackman]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:05:12PM +0200, Håkan Mattsson wrote:
> For obvious reasons, the write cache in disk_log ought to be disabled
> for the transaction log.

As a minimum. You almost certainly want to ensure that the file is
opened with O_DIRECT and O_SYNC too, which are flags which are not
exposed in the file module. Either that, or to actually do the fsync's
before each txn commits.

Matthew