Agreed. Also the odds of fs corruption or data loss are higher in a
non journaling fs. Best practice seems to be to use a journaling fs
but to put the fs log on dedicated spindles separate from the actual
fs or pg_xlog.
Ron
At 01:40 PM 12/1/2005, Tino Wildenhain wrote:
Am Donnerstag, den 01.12.2005, 10:07 -0800 schrieb Gavin M. Roy:
> Hi Michael,
>
> I'm a fan of ReiserFS, and I can be wrong, but I believe using a
> journaling filesystem for the PgSQL database could be slowing things
> down.
Have a 200G+ database, someone pulling the power plug
or a regular reboot after a year or so.
Wait for the fsck to finish.
Now think again :-)
++Tino
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