Subject AW: AW: AW: [firebird-support] Embedded and Forced Writes
Author Steffen Heil
Hi

> Windows would cache the data in memory what ever you
> did. ... CODEBASE
> addressed a number of the problems in the same way as 'Forced
> Write', by bypassing windows, and pushing each write direct
> to the disk.
> The whole problem is simply windows was never designed to be
> a server operating system, and until it addresses that
> problem, we need to prevent it from getting in the way by
> 'Forced Write' of data to the disk, or using a 'safer' OS,
> which actually writes the cache with some level of urgency ;)

Ok, my fault. I assumes "Forced Writes" to be enabled.
Not enabling this is scaring for any firebird database on any system...

However, if forced writes is turned off, then it is absolutely correct for
windows to cache writes...

So, where is the problem?

Regards,
Steffen


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