Stephen Robert Norris <srn@commsecure.com.au> writes:
> On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 16:44, Tom Lane wrote:
>> My money is on IDE drives with write cache enabled.
> I was wondering if he'd turned off fsync(), as seems common for some
> reason...
That would be bad too. But the nasty thing about IDE write caches is
that even when you think you've fsync'd, you haven't :-(
regards, tom lane