Re: disaster recovery

Alex Satrapa wrote:
> Some caveats though:
> 1) Under Linux, if you have the file system containing the WAL mounted
> with asynchronous writes, "all bets are off". The *BSD crowd (that I
> know of) take great pleasure in constantly reminding me that if the
> power fails, my file system will be in an indeterminate state - things
> could be half-written all over the file system.

This is only a problem for ext2.  Ext3, Reiser, XFS, JFS are all fine,
though you get better performance from them by mounting them
'writeback'.

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