Re: Streaming base backups

Florian G. Pflug <fgp@phlo.org>

From: Florian Pflug <fgp@phlo.org>
To: Garick Hamlin <ghamlin@isc.upenn.edu>
Cc: Cédric Villemain <cedric.villemain.debian@gmail.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-01-11T17:27:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Jan11, 2011, at 18:09 , Garick Hamlin wrote:
> My gut was that direct io would likely work right on Linux
> and Solaris, at least.

Didn't we discover recently that O_DIRECT fails for ext4 on linux
if ordered=data, or something like that?

best regards,
Florian Pflug