Re: Can we trust fsync?

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@momjian.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.

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