From: John A Meinel <john@arbash-meinel.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: Jeffrey W. Baker <jwbaker@acm.org>
Cc: Peter Darley <pdarley@kinesis-cem.com>
Cc: Pgsql-Performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Battery Backed Cache for RAID
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:40:25 -0400
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 11:28:43AM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 11:25 -0700, Peter Darley wrote:
>>
>>> I'm getting a new server for our database, and I have a quick question
>>>about RAID controllers with a battery backed cache. I understand that the
>>>cache will allow the cache to be written out if the power fails to the box,
>>>which allows it to report a write as committed safely when it's not actually
>>>committed.
>>
>>Actually the cache will just hold its contents while the power is out.
>>When the power is restored, the RAID controller will complete the writes
>>to disk. If the battery does not last through the outage, the data is
>>lost.
>
>
> Just curious: how long are the batteries supposed to last?
>
The recent *cheap* version of a ramdisk had battery backup for 16 hours.
(Very expensive ramdisks actually have enough battery power to power a
small hard-drive to dump the contents into).
I'm guessing for a RAID controller, the time would be in the max 1 day
range.
John
=:->
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