Re: XFS for postgres databases?

[Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi.

'scuse my ignorance, but why in the world is it a bad thing to run dd (dd 
if=/devhda1 of=/dev/null) on a mounted filesystem with XFS?

Regards,

Nigel

On Wed, 12 May 2004 14:39, Nathan Scott wrote:
> You were running dd on the block device at the same time as using
> the mounted filesystem though, weren't you?  Did problems persist
> after you stopped doing that?  You didn't get back to us with any
> further details there..