On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net> wrote:
> ANY disk that says "write is complete" when it really is not is entirely
> unsuitable for ANY real database use. It is simply a matter of time
What about read only slaves where there's a master with 100+spinning
hard drives "getting it right" and you need a half dozen or so read
slaves? I can imagine that being ok, as long as you don't restart a
server after a crash without checking on it.