Hi Vlad,

I had thought about mentioning doing even if HD write cache is enabled, but I had (still have) the feeling that the OS can't "force" such a thing in any circumstance.

I only surmise this from reading the "Inside SQL Server 7.0" book, where they warn about HD controllers that "lie" to the system (saying it is written when it is still cached). Since they recommend disabling write cache unless it is known to be fail-safe on power failures, I figure there is no way to 'flush' a HD cache. Else I think they would use it there.

cheers

>Hi!
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>Michael said:
>>Reading your Wish #1146 again, I'm satisfied with the way you've expressed it.
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>I'm too. Just no mentioning of "Server" seems better, because client machine usually cannot control ANY caching on server by any way.
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>I also would like to re-phrase the wish in following way (Jim, if you want, include this into wish):
>FLSUH should work better to flush internal OS buffers even in case write-behind caching is switched on. This way I would not require to go to each client computer and confugure it to switch off write-behind caching.