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Article #32530Are disk caches safe?
From: Matthew Eric Seitz
Date: Sat, 14 May 1988 02:32
Date: Sat, 14 May 1988 02:32
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After all the discusion about the dangers of TurboDOS, I'm hesitant about using any disk cache, including the one posted to .binaries. As I understand it, disk caches which do any sort of write buffering are inherently unsafe because there is no simple way to be make sure your information is actually written to the disk. Does the cache posted to .binaries do any write buffering and, if so, can you be sure that the buffer is written to disk, short of exiting the current program ( an accessory to dump the buffer, for example ). Matt Seitz seitz@cory.berkeley.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!pasteur!cory.Berkeley.EDU!seitz From: seitz@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Matthew Eric Seitz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Are disk caches safe? Message-ID: <3343@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> Date: 14 May 88 02:32:47 GMT Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu Reply-To: seitz@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Matthew Eric Seitz) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 12