Re: file system and raid performance

On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Scott Marlowe wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 10:59 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
> <znmeb(at)cesmail(dot)net> wrote:
>> Ah, but shouldn't a PostgreSQL (or any other database, for that matter)
>> have its own set of filesystems tuned to the application's I/O patterns?
>> Sure, there are some people who need to have all of their eggs in one
>> basket because they can't afford multiple baskets. For them, maybe the
>> OS defaults are the right choice. But if you're building a
>> database-specific server, you can optimize the I/O for that.
>
> It's really about a cost / benefits analysis. 20 years ago file
> systems were slow and buggy and a database could, with little work,
> outperform them. Nowadays, not so much. I'm guessing that the extra
> cost and effort of maintaining a file system for pgsql outweighs any
> real gain you're likely to see performance wise.

especially with the need to support the new 'filesystem' on many different
OS types.

David Lang

> But I'm sure that if you implemented one that outran XFS / ZFS / ext3
> et. al. people would want to hear about it.
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