Re: Can we trust fsync?

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Can we trust fsync?
Date: 2013-11-22 23:27:29
Message-ID: 528FE861.4080605@agliodbs.com
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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.

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Josh Berkus
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