Nikolas Everett wrote: > Thanks for pointing that out Bruce. > > NetApp has a 6 page PDF about NetApp and databases. On page 4: > > As discussed above, reads and writes are unconditionally atomic to 64 KB. > While reads or writes > may fail for a number of reasons (out of space, permissions, etc.), the > failure is always atomic to > 64 KB. All possible error conditions are fully evaluated prior to committing > any updates or > returning any data to the database. Well, that is certainly good news, and it is nice the specified the atomic size. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +
