On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Dirk Riehle<[email protected]> wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: >> >> Dirk Riehle <[email protected]> writes:
>>> During boot, fsck (must have been fsck) gave me tons of freeing up inode >>> messages. >> >> And this part is a filesystem bug; it cannot possibly be Postgres' >> fault that the filesystem got corrupted. > > One would think so? But the reboot should have stopped PostgreSQL properly. Doesn't matter whether or not pgsql was shut down properly, it shouldn't result in file system corruption. Now if the file wasn't properly unmounted before power down, that could cause file system corruption. With a journaling file system the file system should come right back up corruption free. Are you running an older distro or something maybe? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
