wscott.marlowe wrote:
> > If you use "intr" then this type of thing can happen. Lots of programs assume
> > the unix semantics for disk accesses. You can get all kinds of bugs when
> > they're violated.
> >
> > If you use "soft" then the consequences can be much much worse. If your
> > fileserver were to reboot you could silently lose disk writes corrupting your
> > database.
>
> What if the WAL was local on disk, and the data was going to nfs storage,
> would that be safe, or saferer? :-)
Not sure --- we do a sync() on the entire machine before recycling the WAL logs.
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