Re: [mail] Re: Windows Build System

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
> Sent: 30 January 2003 15:56
> To: Hannu Krosing
> Cc: Vince Vielhaber; Dave Page; Ron Mayer;
> pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [mail] Re: [HACKERS] Windows Build System
>
>
> In the pull-the-plug case you have to worry about what is on
> disk at any given instant and whether you can make all the
> bits on disk consistent again.  (And also about whether your
> filesystem can perform the equivalent exercise for its own
> metadata; which is why we are questioning Windows here.

I've never (to my knowledge) lost any data following a powerfail or
system crash on a system using NTFS - that has always seemed pretty
solid to me. By comparison, I have lost data on ext2 filesystems on a
couple of occasions.

More info at:

http://www.ntfs.com/data-integrity.htm
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/ntfs/relRec-c.html

Obviously this goes out of the window is the user chooses to run on
FAT/FAT32 partitions. I think that it should be made *very* clear in any
future documentation that the user is strongly advised to use only NTFS
filesystems.

I realise this is not proof that it actually works of course...

Regards, Dave.