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>Buffering of writes on hard disk must be disabled on Data base management systems if you want to insure completion of server writes -- but that sill only works if you have a UPS on the server.

S,

In this case he's not even talking server. I still think that, with a real file server (as opposed to peer-to-peer) the problem is less likely because there is no HD cacheing on the workstation.

Jim