Re: fsync = true beneficial on ext3?

On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 14:02:26 -0500 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> "Ed L." <pgsql@bluepolka.net> writes:
> > If we write something without sync'ing, presumably it's immediately
> > journaled?

> I was under the impression that ext3 journals only filesystem metadata,
> not the contents of files.

by default, it journals everything, but you can set it to journal metadata
only, i think with the mount option data=writeback. do a "man mount"
and look for ext3 options for details on the data= option.

richard
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