Re: silent data loss with ext4 / all current versions

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: silent data loss with ext4 / all current versions
Date: 2016-02-04 08:59:43
Message-ID: CAB7nPqQx-sC9JHJ=_w3pJKqT+1HAS_1DB5vh5d9u1w3703GHHQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> On 2016-02-02 09:56:40 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> And there is no actual risk of data loss
>
> Huh?

More precise: what I mean here is that should an OS crash or a power
failure happen, we would fall back to recovery at next restart, so we
would not actually *lose* data.
--
Michael

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