"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

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