'Erlang: Create Schema Before Starting Mnesia'

• Fri, Apr 17, 2009
• One-minute read

If you’re running into trouble with Mnesia not writing your data to disk, make sure you create the schema BEFORE you start mnesia. Otherwise you’ll get errors like

opt_disc. Directory "c:/Documents and Settings/jhaddad/workspace/Mnesia.localhost@whatever" is NOT used.

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