Re: [PATCHES] O_DIRECT for WAL writes

Greg Stark wrote:
> "Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwb@gghcwest.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>The batteries on a caching RAID controller can run for days at a
>>stretch.  It's not as dangerous as people make it sound.  And anyone
>>running PG on software RAID is crazy.
> 
> 
> Get back to us after your first hardware failure when your vendor says the
> power supply you need is on backorder and won't be available for 48 hours...
> 
> (And what's your problem with software raid anyways?)

I would have to second that. Software raid works just fine.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


> 


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