Problem with lockfiles, and file ownership(?)

[Kenneth Brody]

On 2/8/2016 10:30 PM, rdfreedman BellSouth via Filepro-list wrote:
> Over many years, I have experienced the problem described.
>
> Adding a delay after a write sometimes was a fix. Not much so if several users.
>
> The following usually always fixed it (I have always had backup power on all
> equipment; router, switches, computers, etc.
>
> To work around this problem (windows), follow these steps:
[... disable write cache ...]

Note that the only "real" problem that write cache introduces is lost data 
if there is a system crash after the data is "written" to the cache and 
before it gets written to the physical drive.

It has no effect on reading the still-in-cache data.

-- 
Kenneth Brody