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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GS/OS Cache (was Re: RE: Re: Bad //gs?)
Message-ID: <9560@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 1 Feb 89 22:53:06 GMT
References: <9548@smoke.BRL.MIL> <8550@claris.com>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <8550@claris.com> scott@claris.com (Scott Lindsey) writes:
>From article <9548@smoke.BRL.MIL>, by gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ):
>> Even with the cache disabled, it seems ...
>GS/OS maintains a cache regardless of the setting in the Cache DA.  This
>is one of the reasons for its efficiency compared to ProDOS.

Not a write cache, as I have heard it explained.  If it DOES fail to
"write through" the cache and it gets its cache scrambled when it
aborts out of a folder copy operation, that could explain why the
disk ends up corrupted.