On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Ram Ravichandran <ramkaka@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Running without fsyncs is likely to lead to a corrupted db if you get >> a crash / loss of connection etc... > > Just to clarify, by corrupted db you mean that all information (even the > ones prior to the last fsync) will be lost. Right? Well, it might be there, might not. more likely most of it will be there, but you'll get errors accessing files and could have incoherent data coming out of the db. but yeah, it's way more than just losing the last transaction.