| From: | Lonni J Friedman <netllama(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bricklen Anderson <BAnderson(at)presinet(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Best Linux Distribution |
| Date: | 2005-01-19 17:34:15 |
| Message-ID: | 7c1574a9050119093416c73ed6@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:19:33 -0800, Bricklen Anderson
<BAnderson(at)presinet(dot)com> wrote:
> 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?
XFS without a doubt. XFS has excellent large file (and filesystem) support.
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