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PostgreSQL 10 High Performance - Third Edition
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PostgreSQL 10 High Performance - Third Edition

by Enrico Pirozzi
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
508 pages
15h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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ext3

ext3 adds a journal kept in a regular file on top of the ext2 filesystem. If the journal is empty (which will be the case on a clean server shutdown), you can even open an ext3 filesystem in ext2 mode. It's backward compatible with ext2, and it's possible to convert a volume in either direction: ext2 to ext3, or ext3 to ext2.

There are three levels of journaling available in ext3, specified as options when mounting the filesystem:

  • data=writeback: Data changes are not journaled at all. Metadata changes are journaled, but the order in which they are written relative to the data blocks is not guaranteed. After a crash, files can have extra junk at their end from partially completed writes, and you might have a mix of old and new file data. ...
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