That was also suggested in the pg list: > An crazy idea would be to have a daemon that checks the [kernel] logs and stops Postgres when it seems something wron

That was also suggested in the pg list: > An crazy idea would be to have a daemon that checks the [kernel] logs and stops Postgres when it seems something wrong. > [..] you could have stable log messages or implement some kind of "fsync error log notification" via whatever is the most sane way to get this out of kernel.