Re: [HACKERS] IDE Drives and fsync

2003-10-13 Thread Tom Lane
"scott.marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom, you had mentioned adding a delay of some kind to the fsync logic, and > I'd be more than willing to try out any patch you'd like to toss out to me > to see if we can get a semi-stable behaviour out of IDE drives with the > -W1 and -f switches tu

Re: [HACKERS] IDE Drives and fsync

2003-10-08 Thread Manfred Spraul
scott.marlowe wrote: OK, I've done some more testing on our IDE drive machine. First, some background. The hard drives we're using are Seagate drives, model number ST380023A. Firmware version is 3.33. The machine they are in is running RH9. The setup string I'm feeding them on startup righ

[HACKERS] IDE Drives and fsync

2003-10-08 Thread scott.marlowe
OK, I've done some more testing on our IDE drive machine. First, some background. The hard drives we're using are Seagate drives, model number ST380023A. Firmware version is 3.33. The machine they are in is running RH9. The setup string I'm feeding them on startup right now is: hdparm -c3