Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] "missing" files after hard crash or power failure

["Mark Rages" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 4/2/07, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote
> Yes you are correct.  Sync is not a sure fire solution.
>
> My situation was this.  I had a file which was overwritten every five
> minutes or so - this was meant to keep track of some internal condition
> in a program so that it could be restarted if it was stopped for some
> reason.  When I had a system crash, this file was typically a day out of
> date (which meant I had lost about a day's work).  Repeated 'sync's
> didn't help at all.

What kind of system keeps changes for hours without flushing them?!
That seems really broken.

Regards,
Mark
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