Re: New Linux xfs/reiser file systems

Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Just put a note in the installation docs that the place where the database
> > is initialised to should be on a non-Reiser, non-XFS mount...
>
> Sure, we can do that now. What do we do when these are the default file
> systems for Linux? We can tell them to create other types of file
> systems, but that is a pretty big hurdle. I wonder if it would be
> easier to get reiser/xfs to make some modifications.

I have looked at Reiser, and I don't think it is a file system suited for very
large files, or applications such as postgres. The Linux crowd should lobby
against any such trend. It is ok for many moderately small files. ReiserFS
would be great for a cddb server, but poor for a database box.

XFS is a real big file system project, I'd bet that there are file properties
or management tools to tell it to leave directories and files alone. They
should have addressed that years ago.

One last mention..

Having better control over WHERE various files in a database are located can
make it easier to deal with these things.

Just a thought. ;-)

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