Nick Upson wrote:

> On 18 October 2010 18:00, Ann W. Harrison<aharrison@...> wrote:
>> On 10/16/2010 1:16 AM, Mike Kenyon wrote:
>>>
>>> Modifing firebird.conf (ForcedWrites=Off , MaxUnflushedWrites = 100,
>>> MaxUnflushedWriteTime = 5) write performance are now very similar to
>>> original server.
>>>
>>
>> You should know that an operating system crash will almost certainly
>> corrupt your database in a way that's difficult or impossible to
>> repair. Is using a virtual machine worth that risk?
>>
>
> is that for any VM or just one with ForcedWrites=Off?

Actually the question you need to ask is 'does the VM actually write to the
disk?' I still need to be convinced that VM is a safe way of handling important
data ... when ideally Firebird needs to get direct to a the real disk :) Caching
seems to come into play with a lot of 'speed-up' options, but that is the last
thing you want with any database write?

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