[comp.databases] ORACLE and Regular Filesystems

LEBRUN@ENY.Prime.COM (05/31/90)

I think you problem is the your port of Oracle is not doing a forced
write at COMMIT.

There was a bug is at least some of the 6.0.26 version of the Oracle
source where forced writes were not being done at commit.  Not doing a
forced write of the buffers at COMMIT, will ruin your changes of
recovering from a crash.  It also points to the problem you are seeing.

Without a forced write at COMMIT data might not be written to the database
for some time.

I would look into this.

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