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From: Michael Stone <mstone+postgres@mathom.us>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: WAL sync behaviour
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 09:43:09 -0500
Message-ID: <20051110144309.GO9905@mathom.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051110142535.GA4530@uio.no>
References: <20051110133241.GA4031@uio.no>
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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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