WAL Fsync Latency Indicating Storage Device Stall

Write-ahead log fsync latency exceeding 100ms indicates disk stall, severely impacting transaction commit latency. This is critical for durability as WAL ensures crash recovery. Without WAL failover configured, single storage device stalls block all writes on the affected node.

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