mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > WAL file is never appended - only re-written? > If so, then I'm wrong, and ext2 is fine. The requirement is that no > file system structures change as a result of any writes that > PostgreSQL does. If no file system structures change, then I take > everything back as uninformed. That risk certainly exists in the general data directory, but AFAIK it's not a problem for pg_xlog. regards, tom lane