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.
regards, tom lane