Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> wrote: > Yeah, AFAICT the writes are handed off to the operating system (just > not synced), so if it flushes its caches sanely at all there > shouldn't be a problem. I would certainly *hope* that's the case. We sometimes use fsync=off for conversions, where we plan to just start over if the conversion crashes, and set it to on when the conversion is done. It would be disturbing to discover that fsync=off also means "don't bother to write dirty buffers to the OS before shutdown." -Kevin
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