On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 12:13:36PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > I have got 8x720G disks in a hardware raid 5 setup. It is a Dell 2950
Thow away your RAID 5. It's a loser for this. Raid 1+0 is what you need. > server. I am using an XFS-filesystem. I am not certain about the On another note, I've had abysmal experiences with xfs on linux. Like, "Oops, everything's in lost+found now!" abysmal. (Unfortunately, actually, in my experience Linux has only bad and worse choices for database filesystems. Maybe they'll get it right with ext4.) A -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
