Subject Re: [firebird-support] IB 5.6 File modified times
Author Brian L. Juergensmeyer
Hi, Thomas,

> One reason might be that FORCED WRITES is OFF, so changed data pages
> are buffered and are in the hand of the operating system to flush
> them onto the disk, when the OS has nothing other to do. It was
> shown that under Windows this can be very dangerous due to a
> Windows bug (?), where data pages aren't flushed at all, except
> when the InterBaser server is shutdown properly.
>
> As you may see, in case of a power failure ... ;-)

Hmmm. I'll take a look. We'd told them not to do that.. :)

Thanks,

Brian