Hi, On 1/27/10, Ross Walker <rswwalker at gmail.com> wrote: > > But if your doing mysql on top of LVM your basically doing the same, > cause LVM (other then current kernels) doesn't support barriers. > > Still if you have a battery backed write-caching controller that > negates the fsync risk, LVM or not, mysql or postgresql. This is a bit of a surpise. Am I understanding correctly that running postgresql or mysql on top of LVM negates any data reliability measures the DBMS might have in the event of an unexpected shutdown? I have several servers configured to run LVM on top of MD1 for the convenience of being able to add more space to a volume in the future. I didn't realize this was a reliability risk. :(