On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 14:23 +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > Even with a UPS, as long as there's a human that trips the power cord, > or your system gets a huge power surge, your data ain't safe at all... I > guess we still have humans running servers...
on the postgresql mailing lists there's a lot of chatter about battery backed controllers. If you've got those, the battery should keep the data in the cache safe until the power comes back up. Very important for ultra-fast database performance, very important for reliability too, in case people trip over the power cords. I need to get my employer to spend for those. That's got to be worth the money versus the time lost to trying to recover FUBARed filesystems (even if that happens only once a year per server, when you've got close on 200 servers, it adds up). tiger _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
