2010/3/19 Christian <c_pradelli@...>

>
>
> > NO , data keep in Memory may not be flushed out to disk yet ,
> > or still halfway thru
>
> But I have forced writes on, doesn't firebird flush writes when commit to
> have consistent transactions writed to disk?
> I was thinking that LVM is aware of consistent writes (if firebird forced
> writes is on)
>

Still you can corrupt your database, like say the previus mail.

Check this faq (is safe to copy the database file?)
http://www.firebirdfaq.org/faq355/

You can replace rsync for shadow files.
check
http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/gfix-shadow.html

Regards


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