On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Nicholson, Brad (Toronto, ON, CA)
<bnichol...@hp.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pgsql-performance-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-performance-
>> ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Laurent Laborde
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 8:37 AM
>> To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
>> Subject: Re: [PERFORM] postgresql random io test with 2 SSD Kingston
>> V+100 500GB in (software) Raid1
>>
>> If we use them (unlikely), recovery in case of power outage isn't a
>> problem, as we will use it on slave database (using Slony-I) that can
>> be created/destroyed at will.
>> And, anyway, our slave have fsync=off so the battery won't change
>> anything in case of power outage :)
>
> Are these on the same UPS?  If so, you have a failure case that could cause 
> you to lose everything.

Oh, not at all.
We're doing balancing/switch/failover between 2 different datacenter.
We can maintain (somewhat degraded) operation if one of the datacenter fail :)

-- 
Laurent "ker2x" Laborde
Sysadmin & DBA at http://www.over-blog.com/

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