At 07:49 26/09/2008, you wrote:

>OK, so is the write complete when the journal is written, or is it
>forced all the way through?

Forced writes doesn't implement anything that depends on ext3 journalling: it is filesystem-independent. With FW on, writes from Firebird's cache occur immediately (synchronous writes); when it is off, they are batched up and written asynchronously.

>I suppose I'll have to find out how the workaround works, and then post
>on a Linux newsgroup.

Or you could post a question on Firebird-devel to ask Alex how he did it...

./heLen