hmm if you've some spare time, can you provide the link of those battery backed controller? i'm interested on it. thanks.
On Fri, February 9, 2007 11:03 pm, Bopolissimus X Platypus Jr wrote: > On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 14:23 +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: >> Even with a UPS, as long as there's a human that trips the power cord, >> or your system gets a huge power surge, your data ain't safe at all... I >> guess we still have humans running servers... > > on the postgresql mailing lists there's a lot of chatter about > battery backed controllers. If you've got those, the battery should > keep the data in the cache safe until the power comes back up. Very > important for ultra-fast database performance, very important for > reliability too, in case people trip over the power cords. > > I need to get my employer to spend for those. That's got to be > worth the money versus the time lost to trying to recover FUBARed > filesystems (even if that happens only once a year per server, when > you've got close on 200 servers, it adds up). > > tiger > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > plug@lists.linux.org.ph (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List plug@lists.linux.org.ph (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
