On 8.8.2012 12:06, Mark Rotteveel wrote: > > On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 11:02:52 +0200, Sofija Blazevski > <[email protected] > <mailto:sofija.blazevski%40grappologroup.com>> wrote: > > I did check user profiles, but didn't find any database copies there. > > > > Also, we don't administer this server, but currently we have access. So > > I noticed in system log a message for corrupt and unusable disk > > structure, though the message is from this morning(there was a power > > loss this morning) and problem has occurred on Monday, might this kind > > of problem be due to some kind of hardware failure? > > I was browsing my Firebird-support archive yesterday, and I did see > somebody mentioning that depending on the (disk)cache configuration of > Windows, changes might actually never be written out to disk, unless the > file is actually closed by the application. If there was some kind of > crash, this could mean that the changes were never actually written to > disk. > That is very interesting to know about, thought I never had such case.
Thank you for trying to help, it seems there are a lot of problems with either system or hardware, as one of our application files, out of nowhere came to filesize 0 and had to be replaced. - Sofija > > I am not sure what setting that would be though, and I do think it is > highly unlikely that this would still happen in Windows. > > Mark > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
