/WRITETHROUGH /NOWRITETHROUGH This qualifier only affects applications such as PATHWORKS that can request deferred writes to file headers. You use it to control whether these applications can use the deferred write feature. Use /NOWRITETHROUGH to allow these applications to use the deferred write feature. When one of these applications explicitly requests a deferred write when updating a file header, control returns to the application when the I/O request has been queued; the application does not have to wait until the data is on disk. Note that although the SHOW DEVICES/FULL command shows the volume status as write-back caching enabled, the extended file cache (XFC) will still be in write-through mode. Use /WRITETHROUGH to disable the deferred write feature, so that no applications can use it. The SHOW DEVICES/FULL command shows the volume status as write-through caching enabled. The deferred write feature is not available on Files-11 ODS-1 volumes.