> My results are:
> Fisrt, baseline:
> * Linux, with fsync (default), write-cache disabled: no data corruption
> * Linux, with fsync (default), write-cache enabled: usually no data
> corruption, but two runs which had
> * Win32, with fsync, write-cache disabled: no data corruption
> * Win32, with fsync, write-cache enabled: no data corruption
> * Win32, with osync, write cache disabled: no data corruption
> * Win32, with osync, write cache enabled: no data corruption. Once I
> got:
> 2005-02-24 12:19:54 LOG: could not open file "C:/Program
> Files/PostgreSQL/8.0/data/pg_xlog/000000010000000000000010" (log file 0,
> segment 16): No such file or directory
In case anyone is wondering, you can turn off write caching on FreeBSD,
for a terrible perfomance loss...
http://freebsd.active-venture.com/handbook/configtuning-disk.html#AEN8015
Chris