On 2023-04-07 13:04:34 +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-04-06 at 16:41 +0000, Evgeny Morozov wrote:
> > What can I do to figure out why this is happening and prevent it from happening again?
>
> No idea about the former, but bad hardware is a good enough explanation.
>
> As to keeping it from happening: use good hardware.
Also: Use checksums. PostgreSQL offers data checksums[1]. Some filesystems
also offer checksums.
This doesn't prevent corruption but at least it will be detected early
and can't spread.
hp
[1] For some reason I thought the Debian/Ubuntu packages enabled this by
default. But that doesn't seem to be the case.
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