To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Background fsck
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:21:50 +0200
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On 08/04/2011 07:55, Ireneusz Pluta wrote:
> Achilleas Mantzios wrote:
>>
>> In anyway, having FreeBSD to fsck, (background or not) should not
>> happen. And the problem
>> becomes bigger when cheap SATA drives will cheat about their write
>> cache being flushed to the disk.
>> So in the common case with cheap hardware, it is wise to have a UPS
>> connected and being monitored
>> by the system.
>>
>
> It's not lack of UPS. Power issues are taken care of here. It's a buggy
> 3ware controller which hangs the machine ocassionally and the only way
> to have it come back is to power cycle, hard reset is not enough.

So just to summarize your position: you think it is ok to run a database 
on a buggy disk controller but are afraid of problems with normal OS 
utilities? :) You are of course free to do whatever you want but it 
seems odd :)