Subject Re: [firebird-support] Generators, what could cause resetting generator values to some earlier version
Author Helen Borrie
At 04:48 AM 11/08/2012, Lester Caine wrote:

>I had thought that caching of write data in windows had been sorted, but I'm not
>entirely surprised if just some block of data has been lost.

I believe the OP mentioned that they were using Fb 2.1.3. That's almost three years old now and two sub-releases out of date. I suspect the moves to improve the caching behaviour on Windows came more recently.

>If it was one of my sites I'd drop a new machine in just to prove a point ...

The system log reports of disk corruption are suspicious...but they don't account for lost generator values. If the generator page was actually written to a corrupt block, I'd expect the page to be kaput and to see other evidence of corruption. It seems more likely the page write was lost when they had that power failure.

I wonder whether anyone has checked to see whether Forced Writes is off. If so, the chances of pending writes disappearing on a power outage would be high.

./heLen