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Re: [HACKERS] Performance while loading data and indexing

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Doug McNaught <doug@wireboard.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>, shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2002-09-26T21:41:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-performance, pgsql-general 
Doug McNaught wrote:
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> 
> > We'd be happiest with a filesystem that journals its own metadata and
> > not the user data in the file(s).  I dunno if there are any.
> 
> ext3 with data=writeback?  (See my previous message to Bruce).

OK, so that makes ext3 crash safe without lots of overhead?

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