On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Ron Mayer
<rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com> wrote:
> Greg Smith wrote:
> But I still am looking for any evidence that there were any
> widely shipped SATA (or even IDE drives) that were at fault,
> as opposed to filesystem bugs and poor settings of defaults.
Well, if they're getting more than 150/166.6/250 transactions per
second without a battery backed cache, then they're likely lying about
fsync. And most SATA and IDE drives will give you way over that for a
small data set.