On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Vivek Khera wrote:
> >>>>> "sm" == scott marlowe <scott.marlowe> writes:
>
> sm> also, turning off fsync during the load helps a lot. Be sure to turn it
> sm> back on when you're done of course.
>
> Only if you don't have a battery-backed cache on your RAID. If you
> do, it won't likely make a big difference. For me it was about 2
> seconds over a 4-hour restore.
True, very true. Have you done the "pull the plug" test on it to make
sure it really works, by the way?
