Damage a database

[Beatrix Willius]

Thorsten seems to like to live dangerously.

On 20.02.2008, at 12:03, Thorsten Hohage wrote:

> On 2008-02-20, at 08:19, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:
>> I think this can totally corrupt USB device!
>> Do not do this :-)
>
> I warned about damages before and after the points listed ...
>
>
>> Again, why do this so physically with hardware?
>>
>> You can always do on Mac   Force Quite for an application.
>>    Effect 100% the same.

The last time I tested this for Valentina during a write operation  
this didn't work and the database wasn't damaged, but I will try again.

> Is "Force Quiting" the same, as e.g. pulling a device? Of course  
> your quitting the app, but the system still keeps running (of  
> course). So what happened with data that is in e.g. write cache  
> will this finally written trough the disk due to the system or is  
> all this killed by the "Force Quit" on the application?
>
> My long term experience on REAL issues on production system is that  
> more than 75% are caused by physical issues and not by crashing the  
> db app or the OS. I'm afraid you're not able to emulate this by  
> "Force Quit".

So far I have never seen any system with problems caused by hardware  
issues.





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