From: Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] full_page_writes = off?
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:27:31 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0712100918320.14895@westnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200712101406.lBAE6QU19627@momjian.us>
References: <200712101406.lBAE6QU19627@momjian.us>
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> exist for disk controller caches. Consumer-grade IDE drives are
>! particularly likely to have write-back caches that will not survive a
>! power failure. To check write caching on <productname>Linux</> use
>! <command>hdparm -I</>; it is enabled if there is a <literal>*</> next
>! to <literal>Write cache</>. <command>hdparm -W</> can to turn off
>! write caching. On <productname>FreeBSD</> use
I'm not where I can submit this as a patch right now, but there are two
things that should get fixed in the above:
--Saying "Consumer-grade IDE drives" isn't quite right; "Consumer-grade
IDE and SATA drives" would correctly label the scope of the problem.
--There's a typo on the next to last line here: "can to turn off".
--
* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD
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