fsync when commiting transactions to make sure that transaction
data are written to physical storage immediately. There is circumstantial
evidence that database corruption has been caused due to problems with
delayed write of data after Zope has flushed transaction data.

Added logic to avoid writing empty transactions. It's imaginable that
some future application might want to write empty transactions to
capture transaction meta data. If this ever becomes an issue, then
this feature would have to be made optional.