Re: Page Checksums
Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
To: jesper@krogh.cc
Cc: "Robert Treat" <rob@xzilla.net>, "Jim Nasby" <jim@nasby.net>, "Simon Riggs" <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, "David Fetter" <david@fetter.org>, "Stephen Frost" <sfrost@snowman.net>, "Aidan Van Dyk" <aidan@highrise.ca>, "Josh Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, "Greg Smith" <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, "Koichi Suzuki" <koichi.szk@gmail.com>
Date: 2012-01-24T08:16:46Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> I would chip in and say that I would prefer sticking to well-known proved > filesystems like xfs/ext4 and let the application do the checksumming. Yes, that's a different way of putting my concern. If you want a proven file system with checksumming (and an fsck), options are really quite limited. > And yes, I would for sure turn such functionality on if it were present. Same here. I already use page-level checksum with Berkeley DB. -- Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99