Re: Postgresql on software RAID

From: Robert Creager <Robert_Creager(at)LogicalChaos(dot)org>
To: "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Postgresql on software RAID
Date: 2003-12-18 05:13:05
Message-ID: 20031217221305.26ba12c4.Robert_Creager@LogicalChaos.org
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When grilled further on (Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:45:43 -0700 (MST)),
"scott.marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> confessed:

>
> Just wondering, was that on hardware or software RAID5, and if hardware
> did it have battery backed cache controllers? Makes a huge difference. I
> would never use SW RAID5 for heavily written databases.
>

Hardware raid on Sun Ultra 4 and Ultra 250. I do not know what type of
controller, or if it's battery backed. It's up in the data center, and I've
never even seen them...

cheers,
rob

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