Save command

[Kenneth Brody]

On 5/17/2011 11:04 AM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
> At what point is a record written to disk?
>
> 1. When save is executed
>
> 2. When the processing executed after the save ends

The record isn't written until processing ends, or an explicit WRITE is 
executed.

> The reason for the question is that one of my client's when adding a new
> record to a tracking file, while rebuilding free chain is running, finds
> that some new records are not saved to disk.

By "not saved to disk", do you mean "not saved to disk _yet_"?  If so, 
that's not an issue.

Note that a freechain rebuild is not affected by "still being created" records.

> Yes, I know, I need to find out why they are periodically getting this
> message.

-- 
Kenneth Brody