For the record and not mentioned in Tomas's talk: the PostgreSQL release due out next week will add a PANIC after any fsync failure (in other words, no longer r

For the record and not mentioned in Tomas's talk: the PostgreSQL release due out next week will add a PANIC after any fsync failure (in other words, no longer retry). The same thing has been done by MySQLand MongoDB and probably everyone else doing (optional) buffered IO for database-ish stuff who followed this stuff on LWN etc.