Re: Migration study, step 1: bulk write performance

On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 12:56:18PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 12:52:46PM +0100, Csaba Nagy wrote:
> > They knew however that for the data partitions no FS journaling is
> > needed, and for the WAL partition meta data journaling is enough, so I
> > guess they tuned ext3 for this.
>
> For the record, that's the wrong way round. For the data partitioning
> metadata journaling is enough, and for the WAL partition you don't need any
> FS journaling at all.

Are you sure? Metadate changes are probably a lot more common on the WAL
partition. In any case, I don't see why there should be a difference.
The real issue is: is related filesystem metadata sync'd as part of a
file being fsync'd?
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