diff --git a/libraries/liblmdb/Makefile b/libraries/liblmdb/Makefile
index bca5cd3..2d0983e 100644
--- a/libraries/liblmdb/Makefile
+++ b/libraries/liblmdb/Makefile
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 # - MDB_USE_POSIX_SEM
 # - MDB_DSYNC
 # - MDB_FDATASYNC
+# - MDB_FDATASYNC_WORKS
 # - MDB_USE_PWRITEV
 #
 # There may be other macros in mdb.c of interest. You should
diff --git a/libraries/liblmdb/mdb.c b/libraries/liblmdb/mdb.c
index 121c53c..d82c3f0 100644
--- a/libraries/liblmdb/mdb.c
+++ b/libraries/liblmdb/mdb.c
@@ -79,6 +79,12 @@ extern int cacheflush(char *addr, int nbytes, int cache);
 #define CACHEFLUSH(addr, bytes, cache)
 #endif
 
+#if defined(__linux) && !defined(MDB_FDATASYNC_WORKS)
+/** fdatasync is broken on ext3/ext4fs on older kernels, see
+ *	description in #mdb_env_open2 comments
+ */
+#define	BROKEN_FDATASYNC
+#endif
 
 #include <errno.h>
 #include <limits.h>
@@ -1180,7 +1186,7 @@ struct MDB_env {
 #ifdef _WIN32
 	int		me_pidquery;		/**< Used in OpenProcess */
 #endif
-#ifdef __linux
+#ifdef BROKEN_FDATASYNC
 	int		me_fsynconly;		/**< fdatasync is unreliable */
 #endif
 #if defined(_WIN32) || defined(MDB_USE_SYSV_SEM)
@@ -2361,7 +2367,7 @@ mdb_env_sync(MDB_env *env, int force)
 				rc = ErrCode();
 #endif
 		} else {
-#ifdef __linux
+#ifdef BROKEN_FDATASYNC
 			if (env->me_fsynconly) {
 				if (fsync(env->me_fd))
 					rc = ErrCode();
@@ -3929,7 +3935,7 @@ mdb_fsize(HANDLE fd, size_t *size)
 	return MDB_SUCCESS;
 }
 
-#ifdef __linux
+#ifdef BROKEN_FDATASYNC
 #include <sys/utsname.h>
 #include <sys/vfs.h>
 #endif
@@ -3952,7 +3958,7 @@ mdb_env_open2(MDB_env *env)
 		env->me_pidquery = PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION;
 #endif /* _WIN32 */
 
-#ifdef __linux
+#ifdef BROKEN_FDATASYNC
 	/* ext3/ext4 fdatasync is broken on some older Linux kernels.
 	 * https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/3/83
 	 * Kernels after 3.6-rc6 are known good.