| From: | Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> |
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| To: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Cc: | Johann Spies <jspies(at)sun(dot)ac(dot)za> |
| Subject: | Re: Handling large volumes of data |
| Date: | 2008-04-09 14:00:45 |
| Message-ID: | 20080409140045.GA14729@crankycanuck.ca |
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On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 12:13:36PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> I have got 8x720G disks in a hardware raid 5 setup. It is a Dell 2950
Thow away your RAID 5. It's a loser for this. Raid 1+0 is what you need.
> server. I am using an XFS-filesystem. I am not certain about the
On another note, I've had abysmal experiences with xfs on linux. Like,
"Oops, everything's in lost+found now!" abysmal.
(Unfortunately, actually, in my experience Linux has only bad and worse
choices for database filesystems. Maybe they'll get it right with ext4.)
A
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