Re: how to partition disks

From: "hubert depesz lubaczewski" <depesz(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Sven Geisler" <sgeisler(at)aeccom(dot)com>
Cc: Pgsql-Performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: how to partition disks
Date: 2006-06-14 11:21:25
Message-ID: 9e4684ce0606140421m1a71581dmaa7a9adb988aedc8@mail.gmail.com
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On 6/14/06, Sven Geisler <sgeisler(at)aeccom(dot)com> wrote:
>
> You should configure your discs to RAID 10 volumes.
> You should set up a separate volume for WAL.
> A volume for an additional table space may also useful.
> In your case I would do 2 partitions:
> 1. RAID 10 with 8 discs for general data
>

raid 10 is of course not questionable. but are you sure that it will work
faster than for example:
2 discs (raid 1) for xlog
6 discs (raid 10) for tables
6 discs (raid 10) for indices?

depesz

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