On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Lincoln Yeoh wrote:
Anecdotal - I have found "smart" raid controllers to fail more often than dumb scsi controllers (or even SATA/PATA controllers), and some seem more failure prone than semi-decent operating systems.
You'd need to name some names here for this to mean too much. There are plenty of positively miserable RAID controllers out there. I wouldn't trust the cards from Adaptec, Promise, and Highpoint to correctly store a database about what's in my pockets.
What's more likely in most places is somebody powering down the server abruptly, and then fsync=off could hurt :).
Here you're hitting on the real point. If a proposed solution adds potential for database corruption if someone trips over the server cord, it's not really a solution at all.
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