Re: What filesystem?

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: Joshua Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: What filesystem?
Date: 2003-02-22 18:11:37
Message-ID: 1045937497.366.22.camel@tokyo
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On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 00:25, Joshua Drake wrote:
> JFS and XFS are the most thoroughly tested. EXT2 is the slowest but
> very very stable. ReiserFS is good, EXT3 is good as long as you are
> running 2.4.20 + the source EXT3 patches.

I'd be quite surprised if ext2 was any slower than ext3. Also, since
most PostgreSQL disk I/O involves large files, I wouldn't think ReiserFS
would outperform ext2 either.

Cheers,

Neil
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