Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu!palmer From: palmer@nntp-server.caltech.edu (David Palmer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: System 7 and cache Message-ID: <1991Jan28.234342.12787@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Date: 28 Jan 91 23:43:42 GMT References: <636@adimail.UUCP> <5457@husc6.harvard.edu> <38464@cup.portal.com> <48581@apple.Apple.COM> Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 20 >fry@zariski.harvard.edu (David Fry) writes about caching: [Or maybe the correct attribution is lost] > >>That said, you will not leave information in the cache if you use the >>file manager correctly: you should call FlushVol() periodically, This may not be the best place to ask this, but the people who read this group are the right people to ask. Is there a utility, Init, cdev, whatever that replaces the Apple 'Hope the machine doesn't go down before this gets flushed' disk cache with a write-through or write-in-background-but-promptly cache? I'm just paranoid, but they _are_ out to get me :-). -- David Palmer palmer@gap.cco.caltech.edu ...rutgers!cit-vax!gap.cco.caltech.edu!palmer "Operator, get me the number for 911" --Homer Simpson