I don't think overwriting files of an open database with old copies (with old data) should be used to prove how Oracle works... there's much more going on in SGA & buffer cache for example, other than just writes/reads to/from the file.... -- Tanel Poder http://blog.tanelpoder.com On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Saibabu Devabhaktuni <saibabu_d@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Here is a test case to simulate the behavior of Oracle not doing object > level checkpoint during truncate table operation (and hence not guaranteeing > dirty buffers write to disk) and Oracle reading stale data (logical > corruption). > > > host cp $ORACLE_HOME/dbs/tr1.dbf.org $ORACLE_HOME/dbs/tr1.dbf > > >