| From: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Evgeny Shishkin <itparanoia(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Niels Kristian Schjødt <nielskristian(at)autouncle(dot)com>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Do I have a hardware or a software problem? |
| Date: | 2012-12-12 02:02:00 |
| Message-ID: | 50C7E598.2070902@2ndQuadrant.com |
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On 12/12/2012 09:44 AM, Evgeny Shishkin wrote:
> So far, more than a year already, i bought consumer ssds with 300-400$
> hw raid. Cost effective and fast, may be not very safe, but so far so
> good. All data protection measures from postgresql are on, of course.
You're aware that many low end SSDs lie to the RAID controller about
having written data, right? Even if the RAID controller sends a flush
command, the SSD might cache the write in non-durable cache. If you're
using such SSDs and you lose power, data corruption is extremely likely,
because your SSDs are essentially ignoring fsync.
Your RAID controller's BBU won't save you, because once the disks tell
the RAID controller the data has hit durable storage, the RAID
controller feels free to flush it from its battery backed cache. If the
disks are lying...
The only solid way to find out if this is an issue with your SSDs is to
do plug-pull testing and find out.
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Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
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