Greg Copeland wrote: -- Start of PGP signed section. > Hey, excellent. Thanks! > > Based on that, it appears that XFS is a pretty good FS to use. For me, > the real surprise was how well reiserfs performed. >
OK, hardware performance paper updated: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- File system choice is particularly difficult on Linux because there are so many file system choices, and none of them are optimal: ext2 is not entirely crash-safe, ext3, xfs, and jfs are journal-based, and Reiser is optimized for small files and does journalling. The journalling file systems can be significantly slower than ext2 but when crash recovery is required, ext2 isn't an option. If ext2 must be used, mount it with sync enabled. Some people recommend xfs or an ext3 filesystem mounted with data=writeback. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html
