On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> Given the current quality of Linux code, I hesitate to use anything but ext3
> because I consider that just barely reliable enough even as the most popular
> filesystem by far. JFS and XFS have some benefits to them, but none so
> compelling to make up for how much less testing they get. That said, there
> seem to be a fair number of people happily running high-performance
> PostgreSQL instances on XFS.
I thought the common wisdom was to use ext2 for the WAL, since the WAL is a journal system, and ext3 would essentially be journaling the journal. Is that not true?
Craig