1 Dec
2003
1 Dec
'03
08:54
The Sunday 2003-11-30 at 09:14 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
That's why Linux has "sync". I am sure M$ has a similar command, however, i don't remember what it is... Actually no. The design of the Windows file systems is essentially for an immediate write. In Windows, essentially when a block is to be written, it is done so immediately.
At the risk of being OT, but just for clarity, that is no longer so. It was correct for Dos, but not for recent windozes - and not for old versions using smartcache or similar utility. That's why after a crash or power off windows on boot starts scandisk automatically: there might have been unwritten data. If the cache was separate, there was a flush command. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson