Re: Best Linux Distribution

From: Bricklen Anderson <BAnderson(at)PresiNET(dot)com>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Best Linux Distribution
Date: 2005-01-19 17:19:33
Message-ID: 41EE96A5.6050301@PresiNET.com
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
>
>> No difference whatsoever from PostgreSQL's point of view. Use whichever
>> distribution is easiest for you to administer. After all, there's no
>> point installing Postgres on a machine you don't know how to maintain
>> or tune :)
>>
>>
> Actually there is a difference from PostgreSQL's point of view :)
> Namely in filesystems. The default filesystem on whitebox, RHEL and
> Fedora is EXT3 which really isn't that great.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake

Out of curiousity, which fs would you recommend for a ~terabyte oltp db?

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