On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 14:02:26 -0500 Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "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. by default, it journals everything, but you can set it to journal metadata only, i think with the mount option data=writeback. do a "man mount" and look for ext3 options for details on the data= option. richard -- Richard Welty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Averill Park Networking 518-573-7592 Java, PHP, PostgreSQL, Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend