what is this talk about replicating your primary database to secondary nodes in the cloud.. or is cloud computing still marketing hype?
Martin
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> From: dvlhntr@gmail.com
> To: toby.corkindale@strategicdata.com.au; pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [GENERAL] SSDD reliability
> Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 18:50:28 -0600
>
> > Note 1:
> > I have seen an array that was powered on continuously for about six
> > years, which killed half the disks when it was finally powered down,
> > left to cool for a few hours, then started up again.
> >
>
>
> Recently we rebooted about 6 machines that had uptimes of 950+ days.
> Last time fsck had run on the file systems was 2006.
>
> When stuff gets that old, has been on-line and under heavy load all that
> time you actually get paranoid about reboots. In my newly reaffirmed
> opinion, at that stage reboots are at best a crap shoot. We lost several
> hours to that gamble more than we had budgeted for. HP is getting more of
> their gear back than in a usual month.
>
> Maybe that is just life with HP.
>
>
> -M
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