Re: [PATCHES] O_DIRECT for WAL writes

From: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
To: "Jeffrey W(dot) Baker" <jwb(at)gghcwest(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] O_DIRECT for WAL writes
Date: 2005-07-14 19:34:32
Message-ID: 87vf3dw59z.fsf@stark.xeocode.com
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"Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwb(at)gghcwest(dot)com> writes:

> The batteries on a caching RAID controller can run for days at a
> stretch. It's not as dangerous as people make it sound. And anyone
> running PG on software RAID is crazy.

Get back to us after your first hardware failure when your vendor says the
power supply you need is on backorder and won't be available for 48 hours...

(And what's your problem with software raid anyways?)

--
greg

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