diff --git a/test_lac/loadAndCrash.test.js b/test_lac/loadAndCrash.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cbe9bc3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test_lac/loadAndCrash.test.js
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+/**
+ * Load and modify part of fs to ensure writeFile will crash after writing 5000 bytes
+ */
+var fs = require('fs');
+
+function rethrow() {
+  // Only enable in debug mode. A backtrace uses ~1000 bytes of heap space and
+  // is fairly slow to generate.
+  if (DEBUG) {
+    var backtrace = new Error();
+    return function(err) {
+      if (err) {
+        backtrace.stack = err.name + ': ' + err.message +
+                          backtrace.stack.substr(backtrace.name.length);
+        throw backtrace;
+      }
+    };
+  }
+
+  return function(err) {
+    if (err) {
+      throw err;  // Forgot a callback but don't know where? Use NODE_DEBUG=fs
+    }
+  };
+}
+
+function maybeCallback(cb) {
+  return typeof cb === 'function' ? cb : rethrow();
+}
+
+function isFd(path) {
+  return (path >>> 0) === path;
+}
+
+function assertEncoding(encoding) {
+  if (encoding && !Buffer.isEncoding(encoding)) {
+    throw new Error('Unknown encoding: ' + encoding);
+  }
+}
+
+var onePassDone = false;
+function writeAll(fd, isUserFd, buffer, offset, length, position, callback_) {
+  var callback = maybeCallback(arguments[arguments.length - 1]);
+
+  if (onePassDone) { process.exit(1); }   // Crash on purpose before rewrite done
+  var l = Math.min(5000, length);   // Force write by chunks of 5000 bytes to ensure data will be incomplete on crash
+
+  // write(fd, buffer, offset, length, position, callback)
+  fs.write(fd, buffer, offset, l, position, function(writeErr, written) {
+    if (writeErr) {
+      if (isUserFd) {
+        if (callback) callback(writeErr);
+      } else {
+        fs.close(fd, function() {
+          if (callback) callback(writeErr);
+        });
+      }
+    } else {
+      onePassDone = true;
+      if (written === length) {
+        if (isUserFd) {
+          if (callback) callback(null);
+        } else {
+          fs.close(fd, callback);
+        }
+      } else {
+        offset += written;
+        length -= written;
+        if (position !== null) {
+          position += written;
+        }
+        writeAll(fd, isUserFd, buffer, offset, length, position, callback);
+      }
+    }
+  });
+}
+
+fs.writeFile = function(path, data, options, callback_) {
+  var callback = maybeCallback(arguments[arguments.length - 1]);
+
+  if (!options || typeof options === 'function') {
+    options = { encoding: 'utf8', mode: 438, flag: 'w' }; // Mode 438 == 0o666 (compatibility with older Node releases)
+  } else if (typeof options === 'string') {
+    options = { encoding: options, mode: 438, flag: 'w' }; // Mode 438 == 0o666 (compatibility with older Node releases)
+  } else if (typeof options !== 'object') {
+    throwOptionsError(options);
+  }
+
+  assertEncoding(options.encoding);
+
+  var flag = options.flag || 'w';
+
+  if (isFd(path)) {
+    writeFd(path, true);
+    return;
+  }
+
+  fs.open(path, flag, options.mode, function(openErr, fd) {
+    if (openErr) {
+      if (callback) callback(openErr);
+    } else {
+      writeFd(fd, false);
+    }
+  });
+
+  function writeFd(fd, isUserFd) {
+    var buffer = (data instanceof Buffer) ? data : new Buffer('' + data,
+        options.encoding || 'utf8');
+    var position = /a/.test(flag) ? null : 0;
+
+    writeAll(fd, isUserFd, buffer, 0, buffer.length, position, callback);
+  }
+};
+
+
+
+
+// End of fs modification
+var Nedb = require('../lib/datastore.js')
+  , db = new Nedb({ filename: 'workspace/lac.db' })
+  ;
+
+db.loadDatabase();
diff --git a/test_lac/openFds.test.js b/test_lac/openFds.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e023c5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test_lac/openFds.test.js
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+var fs = require('fs')
+  , child_process = require('child_process')
+  , [AsyncWaterfall, AsyncWhilst] = [require('async/waterfall'), require('async/whilst')]
+  , Nedb = require('../nedb/datastore')
+  , db = new Nedb({ filename: './workspace/openfds.db', autoload: true })
+  , N = 64   // Half the allowed file descriptors
+  , i, fds
+  ;
+
+function multipleOpen (filename, N, callback) {
+  AsyncWhilst( function () { return i < N; }
+              , function (cb) {
+                fs.open(filename, 'r', function (err, fd) {
+                  i ++;
+                  if (fd) { fds.push(fd); }
+                  return cb(err);
+                });
+              }
+              , callback);
+}
+
+AsyncWaterfall([
+  // Check that ulimit has been set to the correct value
+  function (cb) {
+    i = 0;
+    fds = [];
+    multipleOpen('./test_lac/openFdsTestFile', 2 * N + 1, function (err) {
+      if (!err) { console.log("No error occured while opening a file too many times"); }
+      fds.forEach(function (fd) { fs.closeSync(fd); });
+      return cb();
+    })
+  }
+, function (cb) {
+    i = 0;
+    fds = [];
+    multipleOpen('./test_lac/openFdsTestFile2', N, function (err) {
+      if (err) { console.log('An unexpected error occured when opening file not too many times: ' + err); }
+      fds.forEach(function (fd) { fs.closeSync(fd); });
+      return cb();
+    })
+  }
+  // Then actually test NeDB persistence
+, function () {
+    db.remove({}, { multi: true }, function (err) {
+      if (err) { console.log(err); }
+      db.insert({ hello: 'world' }, function (err) {
+        if (err) { console.log(err); }
+
+        i = 0;
+        AsyncWhilst( function () { return i < 2 * N  + 1; }
+                    , function (cb) {
+                        db.persistence.persistCachedDatabase(function (err) {
+                          if (err) { return cb(err); }
+                          i ++;
+                          return cb();
+                        });
+                      }
+                    , function (err) {
+                      if (err) { console.log("Got unexpected error during one peresistence operation: " + err); }
+                      }
+                    );
+
+      });
+    });
+  }
+]);
+
diff --git a/test_lac/openFdsLaunch.sh b/test_lac/openFdsLaunch.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..495c8a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test_lac/openFdsLaunch.sh
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+ulimit -n 128
+node ./test_lac/openFds.test.js
diff --git a/test_lac/openFdsTestFile b/test_lac/openFdsTestFile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fcd87b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test_lac/openFdsTestFile
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Random stuff
diff --git a/test_lac/openFdsTestFile2 b/test_lac/openFdsTestFile2
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3124b92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test_lac/openFdsTestFile2
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Some other random stuff