Re: Power outage borked things (8.1.10)...

From: Michael Monnerie <michael(dot)monnerie(at)it-management(dot)at>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Power outage borked things (8.1.10)...
Date: 2008-03-03 14:40:02
Message-ID: 200803031540.07045@zmi.at
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-admin

On Sonntag, 2. März 2008 Hannes Dorbath wrote:
> That's great, I missed it. May I suggest to add a warning about LVM,
> EVMS, DRBD and Linux MD RAID 5? All do currently not support write
> barriers and are therefor not safe with volatile write caches below.

And what about VMware, XEN, etc., used on a Linux host with hardware
RAID with write-back cache? Not sure if this is 100% safe.

mfg zmi
--
// Michael Monnerie, Ing.BSc ----- http://it-management.at
// Tel: 0676/846 914 666 .network.your.ideas.
// PGP Key: "curl -s http://zmi.at/zmi.asc | gpg --import"
// Fingerprint: AC19 F9D5 36ED CD8A EF38 500E CE14 91F7 1C12 09B4
// Keyserver: www.keyserver.net Key-ID: 1C1209B4

In response to

Browse pgsql-admin by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Richard Broersma 2008-03-03 16:02:10 Re: How to check if index is valid
Previous Message Vladimir Rusinov 2008-03-03 11:55:35 How to check if index is valid