Berkeley DB

Db.sync

						import com.sleepycat.db.*;
						public int sync(int flags)
						throws DbException;
					

Description

The Db.sync method flushes any cached information to disk.

If the database is in memory only, the Db.sync method has no effect and will always succeed.

The flags parameter is currently unused, and must be set to 0.

It is important to understand that flushing cached information to disk only minimizes the window of opportunity for corrupted data.Although unlikely, it is possible for database corruption to happen if a system or application crash occurs while writing data to the database. To ensure that database corruption never occurs, applications must either use transactions and logging with automatic recovery; use logging and application-specific ...