If you do not use barriers, your storage device could very well lose
data if it loses power. There is no easy answer, you need to
understand the type and configuration of your storage.
For a local SAS/S-ATA drive, you should have barriers enabled when
the write cache is enabled (check that with hdparm for example on S-
ATA). Note that you could also be safe by disabling the write cache
and leaving barriers off as well.
If you have a non-volatile write cache (for example on an external,
enterprise class array), you can safely mount without barriers.
Regards,
Ric
Hi Ric,
Thanks very much for the quick response (and Eric, thanks
as well).
Richard put a paragraph with a link to your answer in
our documentation here:
http://www.sqlite.org/draft/lockingv3.html#ext3-barrier-problem
Please let us know if this misrepresents the situation.
Or if there is something else we should add to clarify
it.
Thanks again,
Dan.
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