On þri, 2007-01-02 at 09:04 -0500, Geoffrey wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > > > Actually it has been suggested that a combination of ext2 (for WAL) and > > ext3 (for data, with data journalling disabled) is a good performer. > > AFAIK you don't want the overhead of journalling for the WAL partition. > > I'm curious as to why ext3 for data with journalling disabled? Would > that not be the same as ext2? I believe Alvaro was referring to ext3 with journalling enabled for meta-data, but not for data. I also believe this is the standard ext3 configuration, but I could be wrong on that. gnari
