James Mansion wrote: > Hannu Krosing wrote: > > Pulling the plug should not corrupt a postgreSQL database, unless it was > > using disks which lie about write caching. > > > Didn't we recently put the old wife's 'the disks lied' tale to bed in > favour of actually admiting that some well known filesystems and > saftware raid systems have had trouble with their write barriers?
I thought the issue was that many file systems do not issue the drive ATAPI flush command, and I suppose drives are allowed not to flush on write if they honor the command. -- Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
