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richcollins on Jan 10, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: MongoDB, Data Durability and Improvements coming i...

You can also use fsync to guarantee that a transaction was written to disk at a severe hit to performance.

mathias_10gen on Jan 10, 2011 [–]

Actually that doesn't add any additional durability guarantees in the general case. The only way to use MongoDB durably with a single server is to use the new --dur flag coming in 1.8. I assure you there is no other way.

oomkiller on Jan 11, 2011 | [–]

And how far out is 1.8?

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