lazy write

lazy write

The effect caused by using a write-back cache. Data are written to the cache first and, later, during idle machine cycles or at some specified time, are written to disk if there is a disk cache or to memory if there is a CPU cache. See write-back cache.
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OTM speeds up this operation by utilizing the "lazy write" feature of the OS to write to the cache file.