On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 19:59 -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote: > Put pg_xlog onto the same drive as the OS, not the drive with the database.
I forgot to mention: the OS drive is purposefully made very slow - the write cache is turned off and the FS is Ext3 with data=journal. Is then still ok to put pg_xlog on it? The reason: if the power cord is yanked, the OS _must_ boot back up in good condition. If the DB is corrupted, whatever, nuke it then re- initialize it. But the OS must survive act-of-god events. No, there is no uninterruptible power supply. It sucks, but that's how it is. I cannot change that. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
