Re: initdb crash

> From: Deblauwe Gino [mailto:De_Spike@Pandora.Be]
>
> This isn't just convenience, NTFS (Never The Same Filesystem)
> means not running between multiple platforms.

Notice that we don't support 9x anyway. We only support NT based
systems, and they all support NTFS.

> And a crashed
> NTFS is harder to recover than a crashed FAT32.  All I want
> to say is that they both have their good sides AND their bad sides.
> If you don't work with multiple OS's on 1 system and a shared
> partition between them the choice to make is definitely an
> NTFS, but there are other situations.

If they are both NT based, NTFS should not be a problem, or?


> > This is Postgres. Our motto is "We care about your data". You would
> > have to work really really hard to convince me that
> convenience wins
> > out over safety.

On the basis on this, btw, why don't we reject things like ext2 on
linux? Or any non-metadata-journalled FS (on any platforms)? Or at least
emit a warning. If we can detect it at all (I guess that could be why).
While not as bad as FAT for reliability, still not very good...

//Magnus