> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <
alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> > Scott Marlowe escribió:
> >
> >> What is the torn page problem? Note I'm no big fan of compressed file
> >> systems, but I can't imagine them not working with databases, as I've
> >> seen them work quite reliably under exhange server running a db
> >> oriented storage subsystem. And I can't imagine them not being
> >> invisible to an application, otherwise you'd just be asking for
> >> trouble.
> >
> > Exchange, isn't that the thing that's very prone to corrupted databases?
> > I've heard lots of horror stories about that (and also about how you
> > have to defragment the database once in a while, so what kind of
> > database it really is?)
>
> Sure, bash Microsoft it's easy. But it doesn't address the point, is
> a database safe on top of a compressed file system and if not, why?
