Re: Can we trust fsync? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Can we trust fsync?
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Msg-id 528FE861.4080605@agliodbs.com
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In response to Can we trust fsync?  (Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Can we trust fsync?  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On 11/22/2013 03:23 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 03:06:31PM -0800, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>>> The program is diskchecker:
>>>
>>>         http://brad.livejournal.com/2116715.html
>>>
>>> I got the author to re-host the source code on github a few years ago.
>>
>> It might be worth re-implementing this for -contrib. The fact that we
>> mention diskchecker.pl in the docs, and it is a pretty obscure Perl
>> script on some guy's personal website doesn't inspire much confidence.
> 
> Well, it was his idea, and quite a good one.  I guess we could
> reimplement this in C if someone wants to do the legwork.

Yeah, too bad Brad didn't post a license for it.


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Josh Berkus
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