Re: RAID0 and pg_xlog

From: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com>
To: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
Cc: Qingqing Zhuo <zhouqq(at)cs(dot)toronto(dot)edu>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: RAID0 and pg_xlog
Date: 2005-09-07 18:02:18
Message-ID: 1126116138.15992.21.camel@state.g2switchworks.com
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On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 12:40, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 12:47:43PM -0700, Qingqing Zhuo wrote:
> > Xlog will be the only believable data if your system crashed. So it is a dangerous practice to put xlog stuff in RAID0.
>
> No more or less so than putting your main database on RAID0. If any
> drive fails, you lose everything.

Sounds like a good place to have replication.

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