On 7 Feb 2016, at 1:51pm, Bernard McNeill <bm.email01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it correct to say that, under Linux, if SQLITE_EXTRA_DURABLE is set (and > all other settings are left as default values), and with the further > assumption that the hardware > reports write status accurately to the OS, then SQLITE_OK will only be > returned after a transaction is irreversably fixed on the disk? As far as we know, yes. But the assumption you mentioned doesn't hold on a setup intended for normal desktop use. Never. It'll happen only when you have bought server-range storage devices and they have their jumpers set for server use. I once put together a computer which everything in server mode and installed a standard copy of Windows XP and Office on it. It was horribly laggy to use. Took two minutes to boot, over a minute to load Word, and got about three keystrokes a second once Word was loaded. Something like 20 seconds to switch which App was foregrounded. I loaded Doom on it and got something like ten frames a second. I really must do this experiment again since the figures I got don't mean anything to todays users and they need something they can relate to. Simon.
