PhyLock timeout

[Bob Coleman]

What happens if PhyLock times out waiting for drive writing to stop?

[TeraByte Support]

it continues anyway.

[Bob Coleman]

it continues anyway.

Yes, but does that mean the drive is not "locked", i.e. the image is being made including changes that are being made? Put another way, is the image no longer of a consistent state?

[TeraByte Support]

it's still locked.

[Bob Coleman]

it's still locked.

That's good to know. Apparently I've had a fundamental misunderstanding.

If the source is still locked after a PhyLock timeout, what's the point in PhyLock attempting to wait for drive writing to stop?

[TeraByte Support]

a cleaner point. windows used to ensure all cached data was flushed within 4 seconds, but new windows may not be the same.

[Bob Coleman]

So bottom line I can feel confident that the created image will be in a consistent whether PhyLock times out or not?

[TeraByte Support]

There may be some inconsistencies with data that was not flushed out to disk, but it's locked at that point.