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<title>Reliability and the Write-Ahead Log</title>

Computer\Open\{select disk

drive}\Properties\Hardware\Properties\Policies\Enable write caching on

the disk</>. Also on Windows, <literal>fsync</> and

<literal>fsync_writethrough</> neveruse write caching.

<literal>fsync_writethrough</> neverdo write caching.

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