Nikolas Everett wrote: > I seem to have answered my own question. I'm sending the answer to the list > in case someone else has the same question one day. > > According to the NetApp documentation, it does protect me from partial page > writes. Thus, full_page_writes = off. Just for clarification, the NetApp must guarantee that the entire 8k gets to disk, not just one of the 512-byte blocks that disks use internally. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +