On 01/25/2016 04:47 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: > On 1/25/16, Matthias-Christian Ott <ott at mirix.org> wrote: >> >> Does this mean that if I use SQLite SQLITE_EXTRA_DURABLE=0, PRAGMA >> journal_mode=DELETE and PRAGMA synchronous=FULL, SQLite could loose a >> transaction that it said to be committed depending on the VFS? > > Sort of. This appears to be true if you are running on QNX and you > lose power (or do a hard reset) shortly after the transaction commits. > It might be the case on other OSes/filesystems but it has never before > been observed.
Both XFS and Ceph on Linux require the directory fsync operation to make an unlink persistent. (I did not run experiments, I asked people familiar with these file systems.) Please activate directory fsyncs for Linux, too. Florian
