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Date:      Thu, 18 Sep 2003 17:47:53 +0300
From:      "Artyom V. Viklenko" <artem@mipk.kharkiv.edu>
To:        Mark Bojara <mark@aboutit.co.za>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: write behind caching
Message-ID:  <3F69C599.9040501@mipk.kharkiv.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030918160749.C353-100000@opium.co.za>
References:  <20030918160749.C353-100000@opium.co.za>

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Mark Bojara wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> One of our clients is running a FreeBSD 4.8 server with Samba for his
> Windows based financial system. He is having problems that the index files
> get corrupt. He phoned support for the financial system they told him he
> must disable "Write behind caching" on the server, However this is for a
> M$ server. Is there something equivilent for FreeBSD?

You can try to change this parameters for directory share
on which those files are stored.

strict sync = yes
sync always = yes

It usually slows write operations but forces data writes
to disk befor returning from write operations
on client side.

-- 
        Sincerely yours,
                          Artyom V. Viklenko.
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