On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Ron Mayer <rm_pg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Scott Marlowe wrote: >> >> I can attest to the 2.4 kernel not being able to guarantee fsync on >> IDE drives. > > Sure. But note that it won't for SCSI either; since AFAICT the write > barrier support was implemented at the same time for both. Tested both by pulling the power plug. The SCSI was pulled 10 times while running 600 or so concurrent pgbench threads, and so was the IDE. The SCSI came up clean every single time, the IDE came up corrupted every single time. I find it hard to believe there was no difference in write barrier behaviour with those two setups.
