On 21-Feb-05, at 11:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:OK -- so, you are willing to accept the risk of non-recoverable database corruption in the event of power outage or other kinds of catastrophic system failure (including the plug being pulled on a FireWire drive without it being properly unmounted)?
I.e. that risk is perceived to be acceptably small that the performance hit is not justifiable?
The performance hit is much larger than the risk, so in some cases, no FireWire drives and there is an UPS, the risk is acceptable for the performance gain. To ask the question an other way since FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, etc do not support F_FULLFSYNC is it safe to run any kind of database on them ;)
FreeBSD/Linux/Solaris are most often run in less hostile environments -- cages, racks, UPS'd, etc... Mac OS X has to deal with a very hostile computing environment -- lots of sleep/wake, power loss, drives being hot plugged (often without proper unmounting), etc...
But, agreed, it should be an option.
b.bum
