Re: Write cache

--On Tuesday, January 27, 2004 22:43:34 +0100 ohp(at)pyrenet(dot)fr wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>
>> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:38:30 -0600
>> From: Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>
>> To: ohp(at)pyrenet(dot)fr, pgsql-hackers list <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
>> Subject: Re: Write cache
>>
>> IDE or SCSI?
> SCSI
>>
>> Why do you think the WC is screwing you?
>>
> Because after a sys crash, the most used filesystems (databases) are
> screwed
what VxFS mount options are you using?

>> Which driver(s)?
>>
> Guess... ADPU320
Hrm.

>> LER
>>
>>
>> --On Tuesday, January 27, 2004 22:34:46 +0100 ohp(at)pyrenet(dot)fr wrote:
>>
>> > Because I've lost a lot of data using postgresql (and I know for sure
>> > this should'nt happen) I've gone a bit further reading documentations
>> > on my disks and...
>> >
>> > I have FUJITSU MAP3367NC 36G 10000 rpm disks, those disk have a write
>> > cache of 8Mb, if someone could tell me hox to turn it off... Could'nt
>> > find it in the docs and this could very well explain why a busy
>> > database crashes every time
>> >
>> > Thanks for your help
>> >
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