On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Gregory Stark <stark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That sounds right.
So the take home from this is that NetApp does its best to protect you from partial page writes but comes up short on untweaked NFS (see doc to tweak.) Otherwise you are protected so long as your OS and file system implement fsync properly.
--Nik
That "media recovery" it's referring to sounds like precisely our WAL full
page writes...
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That sounds right.
So the take home from this is that NetApp does its best to protect you from partial page writes but comes up short on untweaked NFS (see doc to tweak.) Otherwise you are protected so long as your OS and file system implement fsync properly.
--Nik