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<fsummary>Starts a local Mnesia system.</fsummary>
<desc>
<marker id="start"></marker>
+ <p>Mnesia startup is asynchronous. The function call
+ <c>mnesia:start()</c> returns the atom <c>ok</c> and then
+ starts to initialize the different tables. Depending on the
+ size of the database, this can take some time, and the
+ application programmer must wait for the tables that the
+ application needs before they can be used. This is achieved
+ by using the function <c>mnesia:wait_for_tables/2</c>.</p>
<p>The startup procedure for a set of Mnesia nodes is a
fairly complicated operation. A Mnesia system consists
of a set of nodes, with Mnesia started locally on all