Re: File Sytems Types and Os Recomendations

scott.marlowe wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, John Allgood wrote:
>
> > Hello
> >
> > I am looking for information on what operating systems and
> > filesystems people are running postgresql on. I have read so much on this I
> > decided to get some input from other people. I at first was leaning toward
> > FreeBSD and using its filesystem. We are a linux shop and love it. What are
> > thoughts on using ext3 or some other Linux filesystems is there really that
> > much performance difference by using ext3 v/s BSD/FS/UFS.
>
> Someone on the list recently compared them, and linux came out marginally
> faster than FreeBSD, but the difference was way less than what a faster
> I/O subsystem, faster / more memory, or faster / more CPUs would make.

That test was flawed because the user later reports that their IDE disks
weren't using DMA on FreeBSD, while it was being used on Linux. He
promised to report back.

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