BTW, exist a way to see if asynchronous or synchronous is activated ?

Guido

Artur Anjos wrote:

> This may help you
>
> ( little bit from http://www.ibphoenix.com/ibp_db_corr.html )
>
> The InterBase Server has two write modes (forced writes), synchronous and
> asynchronous. Pre InterBase V6.0 the default write mode was synchronous:
>
> gfix -write sync database.gdb
> Post InterBase V6.0 the write mode is asynchronous:
>
> gfix -write async database.gdb
> Synchronous writes are known as "careful writes", in that the InterBase
> engine will flush modified pages to disk on a transaction commit, and will
> write the pages back to the database in the correct order (as far as the
> database server is concerned) and so minimise any possible data loss.
> Careful write is present in all cases, though without forced write, it's
> careful only up to the Operating System file cache. Forced write has no
> effect on Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and Windows 98. On Unix and NT, it causes
> the operating system to bypass its file cache and send the page directly to
> disk.
>
> Artur
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