On 12/21/15 8:22 AM, Bill Moran wrote:
Why? Just because a disk isn't enterprise-grade doesn't mean it has to lie
> >about fsync, which is the only thing diskchecker.pl tests for.
> >
>
>I was thinking that since the disk have a 32M write-cache (with not
>battery) it would lie to the OS (and postgres) about when data are really
>on disk (not in the disk write cache). But maybe that thinking was wrong.
There are ways to make on-disk write caches safe without a battery. IIRC
some hard drives would use the inertia of the platter (turning the motor
into a generator) to write contents out on power-off. You could also use
a "super cap".
It varies by vendor and product, which is why diskchecker.pl exists.
It's even possible that the behavior is configurable ... check to see
if the vendor provides a utility for configuring it.
Your OS might let you control it too; I know FreeBSD has support for
this. (Whether the drive obeys or not is a different matter...)
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