| From: | Mark Kirkwood <markir(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)libertyrms(dot)info>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: High Performance/High Reliability File system on SuSE64 |
| Date: | 2004-01-24 21:56:07 |
| Message-ID: | 4012E9F7.7080902@paradise.net.nz |
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> Mark Kirkwood wrote a little unclearly:
>
>>
>> And yes, I would recommend xfs - noticeably faster than ext3, and no
>> sign of any mysterious hangs under load.
>
>
I was thinking about the reported mini-hangs that folks are seeing with
jfs, except the all important keyword "jfs" didnt make it out of my head
and into the 2nd bit of the message :-( Sorry for the confusion.
So I meant "faster that ext3, and without strange mini hangs like jfs...".
Joshua wrote:
>
> The hangs you are having are due to several issues... one of them is
> the way ext3 syncs.
Never suffered this personally, it was an unexpected filesystem
corruption with ext3 that "encouraged" me to try out xfs instead.
best wishes
Mark
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