On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 08:54:10AM -0600, Joel Dice wrote:
> 
> My next question is this: what are the dangers of turning fsync off in the 
> context of a high-availablilty cluster using asynchronous replication?

My real question is why you want to turn it off.  If you're using a
battery-backed cache on your disk controller, then fsync ought to be
pretty close to free.  Are you sure that turning it off will deliver
the benefit you think it will?

> on Y.  Thus, database corruption on X is irrelevant since our first step 
> is to drop them.

Not if the corruption introduces problems for replication, which is
indeed possible.

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