> >So the question is: has anybody verified, that the log is written to disk
> >before returning from commit?
>
> Some (or all?) IDE disks are known to lie: they report success as
> soon as the data have reached the drive's RAM.
under linux, hdparm -W can turn off the write cache of IDE disk, maybe you
should try with write-caching turned off.
best regards,
mario weilguni