> Well from my experience the reason systems crash are hardware failuers
> or power failuers. If your hard disk crashes it won't make any differnce
> whether you fsync was on off, you are reloading from backups unless you
> are running araid system. If the system is a mission critical one then
> I'd assume you would have some sort of UPS or alternate power supply..
> it would seem that the chances of a hardware failure is minimal leaving
> the fsync off is probably pretty safe.
... or someone tripping over a power cord to the UPS or someone hitting the
reset button on the machine thinking it was a different machine -- the thing
is that with fsync() off, even someone hitting the reset button on the
machine and rebooting it could cause severe database corruption even though
the rest of your system is virtually unharmed with a spontaneous reboot
(minus the running of fsck or other utilities to verify the drive's
integrity )..
I agree that the chances of it happening are probably low but if the data is
mission critical then I wouldn't even take a small chance with corruption..
Just be careful!
-Mitch
