Re: silent data loss with ext4 / all current versions

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Tomas Vondra
<tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> Attached is v2 of the patch, that
>
> (a) adds explicit fsync on the parent directory after all the rename()
> calls in timeline.c, xlog.c, xlogarchive.c and pgarch.c
>
> (b) adds START/END_CRIT_SECTION around the new fsync_fname calls
> (except for those in timeline.c, as the START/END_CRIT_SECTION is
> not available there)
>
> The patch is fairly trivial and I've done some rudimentary testing, but I'm
> sure I haven't exercised all the modified paths.

I would like to have an in-depth look at that after finishing the
current CF, I am the manager of this one after all... Could you
register it to 2016-01 CF for the time being? I don't mind being
beaten by someone else if this someone has some room to look at this
patch..
--
Michael