Sean,

S> Forced Writes, though, are REQUIRED in order to **absolutely protect**
S> against database corruption.

well, as long as the other levels of write caching can be disabled.

S> Without Forced Writes, corruptions can and will easily occur on Windows
S> in the event of a server shutdown/restart while the database is active,
S> and occasionally on Linux (the OS is better in this regard).

Don't forget the MaxUnflushedWrites and MaxUnflushedWriteTime
parameters, which allow you to decide how much data you can afford to
lose in case of crash.

Ciao
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Nando Dessena
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