* Christian Koth: > For what reason are you planning to use a journaling FS? I think > using WAL, fsyncing every transaction and using a journaling FS is > tautologous. The journal is absolutely required to preserve the integrity of the file system's own on-disk data structures after a crash. Even if you've got a trustworthy file system checker (there are surprisingly few of them, especially for advanced file systems without fixed data structure locations), running it after a crash usually leads to unacceptably high downtime. -- Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxx> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Durlacher Allee 47 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76131 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99