Re: Can we trust fsync?

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Can we trust fsync?
Date: 2013-11-22 23:31:40
Message-ID: 20131122233140.GH32176@momjian.us
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On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 03:27:29PM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 11/22/2013 03:23 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Yeah, too bad Brad didn't post a license for it.

We can ask him.

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