>> Out of curiosity, can anyone share his tips & tricks to validate a
>> machine before labelling it as 'ready to use postgres - you probably
>> won't trash my data today' ?
>> I'm looking for a way to stress test components especially kernel/disk
>> to have confidence > 0 that I can use postgres on top of it.
That would be running a filesystem benchmark, pulling the plug, then
counting the dead.
http://sr5tech.com/write_back_cache_experiments.htm
