On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 07:55:22PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Jim C. Nasby:
>
> >> Anyway, how would be the chances for PostgreSQL to detect such a
> >> corruption on a heap or index data file? It's typically hard to
> >> detect this at the application level, so I don't expect wonders. I'm
* Jim C. Nasby:
>> Anyway, how would be the chances for PostgreSQL to detect such a
>> corruption on a heap or index data file? It's typically hard to
>> detect this at the application level, so I don't expect wonders. I'm
>> just curious if using PostgreSQL would have helped to catch this
>> so
* Lincoln Yeoh:
> At 07:42 PM 6/11/2006 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
>>We recently had a partially failed disk in a RAID-1 configuration
>>which did not perform a write operation as requested. Consequently,
>
> What RAID1 config/hardware/software was this?
I would expect that any RAID-1 contro
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 07:42:55PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> We recently had a partially failed disk in a RAID-1 configuration
> which did not perform a write operation as requested. Consequently,
> the mirrored disks had different contents, and the file which
> contained the block switched r
At 07:42 PM 6/11/2006 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
We recently had a partially failed disk in a RAID-1 configuration
which did not perform a write operation as requested. Consequently,
What RAID1 config/hardware/software was this?
Could be good to know...
Regards,
Link.
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"Florian Weimer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>
> Anyway, how would be the chances for PostgreSQL to detect such a
> corruption on a heap or index data file? It's typically hard to
> detect this at the application level, so I don't expect wonders. I'm
> just curious if using PostgreSQL would have h
We recently had a partially failed disk in a RAID-1 configuration
which did not perform a write operation as requested. Consequently,
the mirrored disks had different contents, and the file which
contained the block switched randomly between two copies, depending on
which disk had been read. (In
