Re: ideal filesystem layout

While I qualify for running a very small scale installation that doesn't
have such problems my first wish would be to separate the transaction logs
onto a separate SCSI drive from the data. Go check out
http://techdocs.postgresql.org. There are some excellent articles on just
this sort of thing by Robert Mello and others. You'll be better served by
reading that first and *then* posting if it doesn't answer your questions.

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On Wed, 29 May 2002, danix wrote:

> I've been asked to assist a DBA with setting up a postgres system.
> I cannot seem to find any documentation on how to set up the filesystem
> in an ideal fashion, other than the usual installation in /usr/local/pgsql.
>
> This is likely a FAQ, so point me to it if it is, but otherwise, how would you
> set up a box for a largish database (around 2Gb)? I have 4x18Gb drives to
> play with, most likely as a single Raid5 50Gb volume.
>
> Would you have a partition just for transaction logs? How would you slice
> up the box as a dedicated pgsql server? The o/s is redhat.
>
> Thanks!
>
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