Re: What is WAL used for?

Cott Lang <cott@internetstaff.com> writes:

> On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 02:53, Thierry Missimilly wrote:
>
>> For exemple, with the root privilege :
>> mount -t ext3 -o data=writeback /dev/sdb1 /data1
>
> Thanks, but my problem is I need to change the root partition to
> data=writeback, which you can't do by changing fstab. :(

I think there is a kernel boot argument for this, but I don't know
what it's called.  Google will probably turn it up...

You shouldn't have your database files on / on a production system
anyway.  /var should be a separate partition.

-Doug