On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 12:58:10PM -0400, Travis Cross wrote: > >Do you *know* that the disk drive will not lie about write > >complete? > > "Know" is such a strong word ;) Honestly, I have very little idea. > I understand the nature of the problem this presents, as I've read > the very fine PostgreSQL manual many times over the years. > > Because the drives I use are specifically designed to operate well > in a RAID environment, I would 'hope' that the drives perform honest > write operations. > > I wonder if there is a utility to perform a deterministic test of > this...
Brad from livejournal.com wrote a utility that does just that, thought it requires 2 machines to run the test. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
