Re: High Performance/High Reliability File system on SuSE64

From: Christopher Weimann <cweimann(at)k12hq(dot)com>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: High Performance/High Reliability File system on SuSE64
Date: 2004-01-24 01:22:47
Message-ID: 20040124012247.GA40439@smtp.k12us.com
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On 01/23/2004-10:18AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> XFS also has the interesting ability (although I have yet to test it)
> that will allow you
> to take a snapshot of the filesystem. Thus you can have filesystem level
> backups
> of the PGDATA directory that are consistent even though the database is
> running.

You can do snapshots in FreeBSD 5.x with UFS2 as well but that (
nor XFS snapshots ) will let you backup with the database server
running. Just because you will get the file exactly as it was at
a particular instant does not mean that the postmaster did not
still have some some data that was not flushed to disk yet.

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