On Dec 11, 2007 9:55 PM, Magicloud Wang <magicloud.magiclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear, > I think database has its own operation journal, and different journal > filesystem does give different performance. So if I put database file on a > non-journal filesystem, would it be safe? Does this like using a raw device? you can put pg_xlog on a non-journaling fs I believe, but the main data dir needs to be journaled. Me, I put them both on journaled file systems. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/