From: Tomasz Ostrowski <tometzky@batory.org.pl>
To: Martin Marques <martin@marquesminen.com.ar>
Cc: rihad@mail.ru
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: full_page_writes = off?
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 13:16:01 +0100
Message-ID: <20071201121601.GB2552@batory.org.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47514DDC.70607@marquesminen.com.ar>
References: <4751150F.8080604@mail.ru>
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<47514DDC.70607@marquesminen.com.ar>
On Sat, 01 Dec 2007, Martin Marques wrote:
>> Also check whether a disks have write-caching turned off - it should.
>> On Linux the command is:
>> # hdparm -W /dev/sda
>> /dev/sda:
>> write-caching = 0 (off)
>
> Uh? That command as was written lacks an argument for -W (0/1). From the
> hdparm --help:
>
> -W set drive write-caching flag (0/1) (DANGEROUS)
>
> # hdparm -V
> hdparm v6.9
# hdparm -V
hdparm v7.7
# hdparm --help 2>&1 | grep write-caching
-W get/set drive write-caching flag (0/1)
You can also use "hdparm -I" to check this - look for a "Write
caching" in "Commands/features" section. If it has a "*" in front
then it is enabled and dangerous.
Regards
Tometzky
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