Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Speed up CREATE DATABASE by deferring the fsyncs until after

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>, marcin mank <marcin.mank@gmail.com>
Date: 2010-02-15T11:50:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Monday 15 February 2010 12:45:39 Greg Stark wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:34 AM, marcin mank <marcin.mank@gmail.com> wrote:
> > LOG:  could not link file "pg_xlog/xlogtemp.2367" to
> > "pg_xlog/000000010000000000000000" (initialization of log file 0,
> 
> This is not related -- it seems your filesystem doesn't support hard
> links. I thought we used "junctions" on versions of Windows that
> support them which I would have expected would include XP but my
> knowledge of Windows is thin and obsolete.
If I understood him correctly marcin seems to mount a windows share on linux 
via some vbox-proprietary pseudo filesystem. That wont get detected and thus 
no junctions will be used... (I have doubts you even can create them via 
vboxfs (or even smb)).
I would consider that a unsupported setup. Agreed?

Andres