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From: "unordained" <unordained_00@...>
> a blow? yes, quite. firebird will return from a commit() as soon as the ramdrive aknoledges that
> everything went through fine, rather than waiting for the "important" write operation to disk.

Why do you think that commit() will wait for acknowledging write to database (ramdrive)
but not to shadow (disk) ?

Ivan
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