Re: SAN and full_page_writes

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Nikolas Everett <nik9000(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: SAN and full_page_writes
Date: 2008-09-08 22:35:24
Message-ID: 200809082235.m88MZOb09974@momjian.us
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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.

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