On Sun, 12 May 2002 14:42:35 +0000, Ron Clarke wrote:
> I used to have SmartDrive set to cache writes, also according to > some advice I got here on the Arachne list. > Then it bit me ! I lost a heap of very important data files > related to my business when the system crashed while I had heaps of > stuff in memory (whole directories). It took me ages to find and > unerase most of it, but some was lost forever - including the > directories themselves. > I was using FastFlip task swapper, with my word processor switched > out to memory. :( > I lost the whole directory it was logged into, and never got it back. > After that, I disabled caching writes. I will never enable it again. > Do what you have to, but I am very happy to wait those fractions of a > second that disk writes take, knowing that I have reduced the risk of > losing data again. I don't have anything on the Arachne machine that I couldn't live without, so it's not a problem. If I had stuff I really didn't want to lose I would get religion about backups. Sam Ewalt Croswell, Michigan, USA -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
