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From: Michael Stone <mstone+postgres@mathom.us>
To: Jim C. Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Postgresql Performance on an HP DL385 and
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:26:46 -0400
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On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 11:29:26AM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
>Are 'we' sure that such a setup can't lose any data?

Yes. If you check the archives, you can even find the last time this was 
discussed...

The bottom line is that the only reason you need a metadata journalling 
filesystem is to save the fsck time when you come up. On a little 
partition like xlog, that's not an issue.

Mike Stone



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