Alex Satrapa wrote: > Some caveats though: > 1) Under Linux, if you have the file system containing the WAL mounted > with asynchronous writes, "all bets are off". The *BSD crowd (that I > know of) take great pleasure in constantly reminding me that if the > power fails, my file system will be in an indeterminate state - things > could be half-written all over the file system.
This is only a problem for ext2. Ext3, Reiser, XFS, JFS are all fine, though you get better performance from them by mounting them 'writeback'. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
