| Subject | Re: [firebird-support] Generators, what could cause resetting generator values to some earlier version |
|---|---|
| Author | Mark Rotteveel |
| Post date | 2012-08-08T10:06:30Z |
On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 11:02:52 +0200, Sofija Blazevski
<sofija.blazevski@...> wrote:
somebody mentioning that depending on the (disk)cache configuration of
Windows, changes might actually never be written out to disk, unless the
file is actually closed by the application. If there was some kind of
crash, this could mean that the changes were never actually written to
disk.
I am not sure what setting that would be though, and I do think it is
highly unlikely that this would still happen in Windows.
Mark
<sofija.blazevski@...> wrote:
> I did check user profiles, but didn't find any database copies there.I was browsing my Firebird-support archive yesterday, and I did see
>
> Also, we don't administer this server, but currently we have access. So
> I noticed in system log a message for corrupt and unusable disk
> structure, though the message is from this morning(there was a power
> loss this morning) and problem has occurred on Monday, might this kind
> of problem be due to some kind of hardware failure?
somebody mentioning that depending on the (disk)cache configuration of
Windows, changes might actually never be written out to disk, unless the
file is actually closed by the application. If there was some kind of
crash, this could mean that the changes were never actually written to
disk.
I am not sure what setting that would be though, and I do think it is
highly unlikely that this would still happen in Windows.
Mark