Re: Can we trust fsync?

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Can we trust fsync?
Date: 2013-11-22 23:23:06
Message-ID: 20131122232306.GG32176@momjian.us
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On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 03:06:31PM -0800, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > The program is diskchecker:
> >
> > http://brad.livejournal.com/2116715.html
> >
> > I got the author to re-host the source code on github a few years ago.
>
> It might be worth re-implementing this for -contrib. The fact that we
> mention diskchecker.pl in the docs, and it is a pretty obscure Perl
> script on some guy's personal website doesn't inspire much confidence.

Well, it was his idea, and quite a good one. I guess we could
reimplement this in C if someone wants to do the legwork.

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