seitz@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Matthew Eric Seitz) (05/14/88)
After all the discusion about the dangers of TurboDOS, I'm hesitant about using any disk cache, including the one posted to .binaries. As I understand it, disk caches which do any sort of write buffering are inherently unsafe because there is no simple way to be make sure your information is actually written to the disk. Does the cache posted to .binaries do any write buffering and, if so, can you be sure that the buffer is written to disk, short of exiting the current program ( an accessory to dump the buffer, for example ). Matt Seitz seitz@cory.berkeley.edu
egisin@watmath.waterloo.edu (Eric Gisin) (05/15/88)
My disk cache (posted to comp.{sources,binaries}.atari.st)
is write-through, it never holds unwritten buffers.
The only thing that would make it unsafe is if media change
is not detected, either due to identical serial numbers to faulty hardware.