Hi Steffen,

> However I am on 2.0.4 (and currently bound to that) and I need to decide
> from linux on command line, whether forced writes is on.
> Can you give me any hint?

http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/gfix-sync.html

The forced writes are on by default on Linux, Windows NT, XP, 2000,
2003, Vista and I presume 7 as well. (According to the above page!)

However, your 2.0.4 version will not show this in the attributes, until
you explicitly set the sync mode using gfix.

I would advise you to run a "gfix -write sync <database name>" manually
after creating the database9s) if you absolutely must know that forced
writes are on. That way, a run of "gstat -h <database name>" will report
that forced writes are on.

Other than that, I'm not sure how else you could find out - unless you
upgrade to 2.5 of course, where gstat will show that forced writes are
on immediately after creation.


HTH

Cheers,
Norman.

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