Re: Power outage borked things (8.1.10)... - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Michael Monnerie
Subject Re: Power outage borked things (8.1.10)...
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Msg-id 200803031540.07045@zmi.at
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In response to Re: Power outage borked things (8.1.10)...  (Hannes Dorbath <light@theendofthetunnel.de>)
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On Sonntag, 2. März 2008 Hannes Dorbath wrote:
> That's great, I missed it. May I suggest to add a warning about LVM,
> EVMS, DRBD and Linux MD RAID 5? All do currently not support write
> barriers and are therefor not safe with volatile write caches below.

And what about VMware, XEN, etc., used on a Linux host with hardware
RAID with write-back cache? Not sure if this is 100% safe.

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