"Ed L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If we write something without sync'ing, presumably it's immediately > journaled?
I was under the impression that ext3 journals only filesystem metadata, not the contents of files. > I've been running a few pgsql clusters on ext3 with fsync = > false, suffered numerous OS crashes, and have yet to lose any data or see > any corruption from any of those crashes. Have I just been lucky? Doesn't sound very safe to me. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])