Re: Postgres and fsync

2018-04-23 Thread Tim Cross
Andres Freund writes: > Hi, > > On 2018-04-23 08:30:25 +1000, Tim Cross wrote: >> the recent article in LWN regarding issues with fsync and error >> reporting in the Linux kernel and the potential for lost data has >> prompted me to ask 2 questions. > > Note that you need to have *storage* failu

Re: Postgres and fsync

2018-04-22 Thread Andres Freund
Hi, On 2018-04-23 08:30:25 +1000, Tim Cross wrote: > the recent article in LWN regarding issues with fsync and error > reporting in the Linux kernel and the potential for lost data has > prompted me to ask 2 questions. Note that you need to have *storage* failures for this to happen. I.e. your di