Re: Journaling file systems

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Darley <pdarley(at)kinesis-cem(dot)com>
Cc: Pgsql-Admin <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Journaling file systems
Date: 2002-02-26 17:19:44
Message-ID: 200202261719.g1QHJiC06041@candle.pha.pa.us
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Peter Darley wrote:
> Friends,
> I'm wondering if a journaling file system, like ext3, will make much
> difference with the speed or reliability of PostgreSQL? Is it worth the
> work to switch over?

Reports are that ext3, with its journalling overhead, is slower that
ext2. At least that's what I remember.

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