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Old 09-17-2002, 04:12 PM  
salsbury
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Quote:
Originally posted by boneprone
here is one argument against.
Noc@ (3:35 PM) :
This can mean anything from losing files that you updated in the last hour, to losing directories if they were moved but had not yet been written, in rare cases even partitions can be come corrupted
it's more like 15-60 seconds, not an hour.

Quote:

Boneprone (3:35 PM) :
ahh so the potential we can loose on a crash is just that date in between the time of writing?


Noc@:
no, you can essentially lose everything, because meta data when it gets messed up it may force errors on neighboring files
it really sounds like Noc is thinking of async rather than softupdates.

i'll bow out and let other people comment now.
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