Re: What's the best hardver for PostgreSQL 8.1? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Steinar H. Gunderson
Subject Re: What's the best hardver for PostgreSQL 8.1?
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Msg-id 20051225122919.GA13089@uio.no
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In response to Re: What's the best hardver for PostgreSQL 8.1?  (David Lang <dlang@invendra.net>)
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On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 04:13:57AM -0800, David Lang wrote:
> Thanks for the clarification, I knew that PATA didn't do hotswap, and I've
> seen discussions on the linux-kernel list about SATA hotswap being worked
> on, but I thought that scsi handled it. how recent a kernel have you had
> problems with?

Is has largely worked for us, even though it's a bit hackish -- you _must_
disconnect the drive properly in the kernel before ejecting it physically,
though, or it will never reconnect. At least that's how it is with our
Adaptec 19160.

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