Subject Re: [ib-support] When do FB/IB 'flush' to disk?
Author Phil Shrimpton
On Thursday 29 November 2001 02:14, you wrote:

Hi,

> How would flushing differ from forced writes? I'm not sure I get the idea.

By not using forced writes FB/IB leaves it up to the OS to flush the data to
the GDB file(s). But on Windows, it does not do the flush until the
connection is closed, which means if your app is running 24/7, data is never
flushed.

Phil

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