>>I discovered this morning that we now have the ability to take a copy of a DBF file in Win2K even if the file is opened. Basically, I believe all kind of operations can be applied to such a file when it is being opened. That seems to be a new feature of that server. There are some good advantages of that. Is this a setting we can control from the OS to let is as is or to avoid any operation on an opened file?
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>Hi Michel,
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>I wonder if this has anything to do with the cache problem on IDE drives in Win2K. The file operations work on the cache, not the actual file, thus it is not locked. The cache updates are written to the file at system shutdown.
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>We have had clients who have had some serious problems with this, especially when a whole day's worth of new data being lost when the power goes out just before quitting time. It can be frusterating.
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>I know there is a hotfix for Win2K from MS for this issue. It has something to do with "write cache enabled" on IDE drives. See:
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http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q281/6/72.asp?ID=281672We only use SCSI drive since years.
