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Commit d5a21ae7 authored by Konstantin Osipov's avatar Konstantin Osipov
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Document wal_mode=none

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......@@ -554,8 +554,8 @@ tarantool_box: primary@sessions pri:33013 sec:33014 adm:33015</programlisting>
<entry>no</entry>
<entry>yes</entry>
<entry>Specify fiber-WAL-disk synchronization mode as:
<emphasis>write:</emphasis> fibers wait for their data to
be written to WAL (no fsync(2)); <emphasis>fsync</emphasis>:
<emphasis>none:</emphasis> write ahead log is not maintained; <emphasis>write:</emphasis> fibers wait for their data to
be written to the write ahead log (no fsync(2)); <emphasis>fsync</emphasis>:
fibers wait for their data, fsync(2) follows each write(2);
<emphasis>fsync_delay</emphasis>: fibers wait for their
data, fsync(2) is called every N=<emphasis>wal_fsync_delay</emphasis>
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......@@ -70,7 +70,12 @@ unaffected by disk load.
<para>
WAL writer employs a number of modes for synchronization between
requesting fibers, WAL writer and disk hardware, as defined
in configuration for <olink targetptr="wal_mode"/>.
in configuration for <olink targetptr="wal_mode"/>. It is also
possible to turn the write ahead log completely off, by setting
<olink targetptr="wal_mode"/> to <emphasis>none</emphasis>.
Even without the write ahead log it's still possible to take a
persistent copy of the entire data set with
<olink targetptr="save-snapshot"/>.
</para>
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