Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> 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).
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