| From: | Lonni J Friedman <netllama(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)www(dot)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Esteban Kemp <ekemp(at)inf(dot)uach(dot)cl>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Best Linux Distribution |
| Date: | 2005-01-19 17:23:57 |
| Message-ID: | 7c1574a905011909234993e568@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:03:31 -0800, Joshua D. Drake
<jd(at)www(dot)commandprompt(dot)com> 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.
On whitebox & RHEL ext3 is really the only choice. However, FC3
provides all the other major filesystems as choices (XFS, reiser).
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