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From Michael Stone
Subject Re: WAL sync behaviour
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Msg-id 20051110144309.GO9905@mathom.us
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In response to Re: WAL sync behaviour  ("Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>)
Responses Re: WAL sync behaviour  (Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>)
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On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 03:25:35PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
>Ah, yes, I forgot -- it's ext3. We're considering simply moving the WAL onto
>a separate partition (with data=writeback and noatime) if that can help us
>any.

There's no reason to use a journaled filesystem for the wal. Use ext2 in
preference to ext3.

Mike Stone

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