Re: write to disk in cooked files

I am running SE 7.14 on SCO Unix. I may be having a problem with the buffers writing to disk. Is there a way to ensure the writes to disk in SE? Thanks for any suggestions. At 06:37 PM 6/20/98 +0100, you wrote: >guest wrote: >> >> Hi , >> When we are using cooked files , when a write is issued by informix to the >> OS "UNIX" it returns a write successful . Now my question is where exactly is >> the write performed i.e to the buffer or to the disk ? > >Well, the point is, you don't know. And becuase you can't be certain >that the write HAS actually gone to disk, as Informix assumes it has, >you have potential data integrity problems. > >This is why, correctly in my opinion, Informix recommend that you use >raw disk for important (ie non-development) systems. An exception is, >arguably, temporary dbspaces. > >Neil Truby >Chase Manhattan Bank >Bournemouth, UK > Barry Stubbs Windham School District bgs@alpha1.net