Re: Linux filesystem performance and checkpoint sorting

From: Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Mark Kirkwood <mark(dot)kirkwood(at)catalyst(dot)net(dot)nz>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Linux filesystem performance and checkpoint sorting
Date: 2011-02-05 04:47:11
Message-ID: 4D4CD64F.7080004@2ndquadrant.com
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Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> Are you going to do some runs with ext4? I'd be very interested to see
> how it compares (assuming that you are on a kernel version 2.6.32 or
> later so ext4 is reasonably stable...).

Yes, before I touch this system significantly I'll do ext4 as well, and
this is running the Ubuntu 10.04 2.6.32 kernel so ext4 should be stable
enough. I have some PostgreSQL work that needs to get finished first
though.

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