scott@claris.com (Scott Lindsey) (02/01/89)
From article <9548@smoke.BRL.MIL>, by gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ):
> Even with the cache disabled, it seems ...
GS/OS maintains a cache regardless of the setting in the Cache DA. This
is one of the reasons for its efficiency compared to ProDOS.
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In article <8550@claris.com> scott@claris.com (Scott Lindsey) writes: >From article <9548@smoke.BRL.MIL>, by gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ): >> Even with the cache disabled, it seems ... >GS/OS maintains a cache regardless of the setting in the Cache DA. This >is one of the reasons for its efficiency compared to ProDOS. Not a write cache, as I have heard it explained. If it DOES fail to "write through" the cache and it gets its cache scrambled when it aborts out of a folder copy operation, that could explain why the disk ends up corrupted.