Laszlo Nagy <gandalf 'at' designaproduct.biz> writes: > This is a mirrored disk with two SATA disks. In theory, writing should > be slower than reading. Is this a hardware problem? Or is it that > "sync" did not do the sync? SATA disks are supposed to be capable of lying to pg's fsync (pg asking the kernel to synchronize a write and waiting until it is finished). Same can probably happen to the "sync" command. -- Guillaume Cottenceau Create your personal SMS or WAP Service - visit http://mobilefriends.ch/