On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Ron Mayer <rm_pg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greg Smith wrote: > But I still am looking for any evidence that there were any > widely shipped SATA (or even IDE drives) that were at fault, > as opposed to filesystem bugs and poor settings of defaults. Well, if they're getting more than 150/166.6/250 transactions per second without a battery backed cache, then they're likely lying about fsync. And most SATA and IDE drives will give you way over that for a small data set.
