Re: Recomended FS

I suspect almost everyone using IDE drives -

We the "consumers" of this technology need to demand that the vendors:

1. Be honest about these limitations / bugs
2. Work to fix obvious bugs - e.g. drives lying about write cache status 
need to have their behaviour changed as soon as possible.

In the meantime I guess all we can do is try to understand the issue and 
raise awareness

regards

Mark

Bruce Momjian wrote:

>Mark Kirkwood wrote:
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>>Its worth checking - isn't it ?
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>>I appeciate that you may have performed such tests previously - but as 
>>hardware and software evolve its often worth repeating such tests (goes 
>>away to do the suggested one tonight).
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>>Note that I am not trying to argue away the issue about write caching - 
>>it *has* to increase the risk of database corruption following a power 
>>failure, however if your backups are regular and reliable this may be a 
>>risk worth taking to achieve acceptable performance at a low price.
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>Sure, but how many people are taking that risk and not knowing it!
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