/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.