Andrew McMillan wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 14:13, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>>
>>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>>
>>>> But it should be okay to set the filesystem to journal only its
>>>> own metadata. There's no need for it to journal file contents.
>>>>
>>
>>> Can you set ext2 to journal metadata? I didn't know it could do
>>> that.
>>
>> No, ext2 has no journal at all AFAIK. But I believe ext3 has an
>> option to journal or not journal file contents, and at least on a
>> Postgres-only volume you'd want to turn that off.
>
>
> No, it certainly doesn't.
You can mount ext3 filesystems as ext2 and they will function just as ext2.
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