> Hi again!
>
> There's one little point I forgot to make in my previous post.
>
> There are now filesystems that garantee the order of asynchronous write
> (LinLogFS, and, I think, ReiserFS v4). On such file systems, would it be
> safe to turn ForcedWrites off, thus gaining a lot of performance?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jonathan Neve.

I don't think it's the order per se that's important as much as it is the OS
making untimely writes. Forced writes on Windows is important because
windows will cache it's writes and it is not as reliable as Linux in the
server stakes. Let's not forget that OS's do not know how to recognise the
boundary of database transactions. The database server is the only thing
which knows this.
Alan