[Info-vax] Databases versus RMS

[Bob Koehler]

In article <jmm94e$atj$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
> 
> Even beyond any language issue, or RMS details, the OS can cache and 
> defer actual writes to the disk without you ever knowing about it. Not 
> to mention that disks also cache things...
> 

   OS cache?  Are you dreaming UNIX?  VMS has never cahced any data I
   cared about without my explicitly telling it to do so.

   Disks that cache should use a non-volatile memory to do so, or
   contain internal power storage sufficient to flush the cache.
   Caveat emptor.