Hi, On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 02:28:30PM +0200, Branko F. Gracner wrote: > > You probably want data=writeback, since Oracle is already controlling > > the flushing of data to disk, and data integrity related to that. > does oracle call fsync(2) to flush filesystem buffers on disk? No, it uses O_SYNC, I think (which is equivalent but faster). > ... i don't > know, but i'm really corious about this one. i stil prefer running my oracle > servers with data=journal. data=journal won't help in the slightest in this case. ext3 still performs all of its writes asynchronously unless the application explicitly requests sync IO. Cheers, Stephen
