We made medium-sized application (approx. 600MB-1GB of db file) on INTERBASE
6.01/LINUX and Delphi 4.0 with DBE. From time to time (eg. once for 2
weeks) in some our clients we have problem with database file (some data is
lost, data page errors, index errors). We checked hardware and system many
times and there we didn't find any problem.

Can it be any problem with BDE? I'm asking because You write something like
that. If yes it will be terrible because of Thousands line of code, many
database components....

Regards

Krzysztof Dyczkowski

SOL-SYSTEM
www.sol-system.pl


-----Original Message-----
From: Helen Borrie [mailto:helebor@...]
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 1:05 AM
To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ib-support] File system

>The corruption probably has little or nothing to do with the power supply -

which is not a reason to abandon the idea >of a UPS. Although InterBase is
good about recovering from a crash, the BDE is not. Every kind of abnormal

>termination from a BDE database application will break something. A

database that is being accessed through the >BDE **must** have forced
(synchronous) writes set true...I think, though, that this happens
automatically on Win9x >because the platform doesn't support async writes...