Greg Smith wrote: > On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > exist for disk controller caches. Consumer-grade IDE drives are > >! particularly likely to have write-back caches that will not survive a > >! power failure. To check write caching on <productname>Linux</> use > >! <command>hdparm -I</>; it is enabled if there is a <literal>*</> next > >! to <literal>Write cache</>. <command>hdparm -W</> can to turn off > >! write caching. On <productname>FreeBSD</> use > > I'm not where I can submit this as a patch right now, but there are two > things that should get fixed in the above: > > --Saying "Consumer-grade IDE drives" isn't quite right; "Consumer-grade > IDE and SATA drives" would correctly label the scope of the problem. > > --There's a typo on the next to last line here: "can to turn off".
Thanks, both done. -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://postgres.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
