Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom Lane wrote: > >> But it should be okay to set the filesystem to journal only its own > >> metadata. There's no need for it to journal file contents. > > > Can you set ext2 to journal metadata? I didn't know it could do that. > > No, ext2 has no journal at all AFAIK. But I believe ext3 has an option > to journal or not journal file contents, and at least on a Postgres-only > volume you'd want to turn that off.
Right, ext3 has that option. I don't think XFS needs it (it does meta-data only by default). -- 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 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
