Re: PITR Dead horse?

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 10:04:56AM -0700, scott.marlowe wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Rod Taylor wrote:

> > One thing we could use (and I have no idea how to do it) is a "This
> > hardware is not appropriate for a database" test kit.
> > 
> > Something to detect lying disks, battery backed write cache that isn't
> > so battery backed, etc.
> 
> but I'm not sure you can test that without power off tests...  so, it 
> would have to be a test that kinda started up then told you to pull the 
> plug on the box.  Even a kernel panic wouldn't detect it because the drive 
> would still be powered up.

Try UMLSIM, umlsim.sourceforge.net

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