Re: PITR Dead horse?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>
To: "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>
Cc: Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>, Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, ntufar(at)pisem(dot)net, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PITR Dead horse?
Date: 2004-02-11 20:43:41
Message-ID: 20040211204341.GA11656@dcc.uchile.cl
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On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 10:04:56AM -0700, scott.marlowe wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Rod Taylor wrote:

> > One thing we could use (and I have no idea how to do it) is a "This
> > hardware is not appropriate for a database" test kit.
> >
> > Something to detect lying disks, battery backed write cache that isn't
> > so battery backed, etc.
>
> but I'm not sure you can test that without power off tests... so, it
> would have to be a test that kinda started up then told you to pull the
> plug on the box. Even a kernel panic wouldn't detect it because the drive
> would still be powered up.

Try UMLSIM, umlsim.sourceforge.net

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"El destino baraja y nosotros jugamos" (A. Schopenhauer)

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