From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Cc: Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>
Subject: Re: Handling large volumes of data
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 10:00:45 -0400
Message-ID: <20080409140045.GA14729@crankycanuck.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080408101336.GJ13409@sun.ac.za>
References: <20080408094233.GG13409@sun.ac.za>
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On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 12:13:36PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> I have got 8x720G disks in a hardware raid 5 setup. It is a Dell 2950
Thow away your RAID 5. It's a loser for this. Raid 1+0 is what you need.
> server. I am using an XFS-filesystem. I am not certain about the
On another note, I've had abysmal experiences with xfs on linux. Like,
"Oops, everything's in lost+found now!" abysmal.
(Unfortunately, actually, in my experience Linux has only bad and worse
choices for database filesystems. Maybe they'll get it right with ext4.)
A
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