On 08/04/2011 07:55, Ireneusz Pluta wrote:
> Achilleas Mantzios wrote:
>>
>> In anyway, having FreeBSD to fsck, (background or not) should not
>> happen. And the problem
>> becomes bigger when cheap SATA drives will cheat about their write
>> cache being flushed to the disk.
>> So in the common case with cheap hardware, it is wise to have a UPS
>> connected and being monitored
>> by the system.
>>
>
> It's not lack of UPS. Power issues are taken care of here. It's a buggy
> 3ware controller which hangs the machine ocassionally and the only way
> to have it come back is to power cycle, hard reset is not enough.
So just to summarize your position: you think it is ok to run a database
on a buggy disk controller but are afraid of problems with normal OS
utilities? :) You are of course free to do whatever you want but it
seems odd :)