Re: [PERFORM] Recommended File System Configuration

2004-05-04 Thread James Thornton
Chris Browne wrote: The results have not been totally conclusive... - Several have found JFS to be a bit faster than anything else on Linux, but some data loss problems have been experienced; - ext2 has the significant demerit that with big filesystems, fsck will take forever to run; -

Re: [PERFORM] Recommended File System Configuration

2004-05-03 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Thornton) writes: Back in 2001, there was a lengthy thread on the PG Hackers list about PG and journaling file systems (http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2001-05/msg00017.php), but there was no decisive conclusion regarding what FS to use. At the time the

[PERFORM] Recommended File System Configuration

2004-05-02 Thread James Thornton
Back in 2001, there was a lengthy thread on the PG Hackers list about PG and journaling file systems (http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2001-05/msg00017.php), but there was no decisive conclusion regarding what FS to use. At the time the fly in the XFS ointment was that deletes were