From: Ragnar <gnari@hive.is>
To: Geoffrey <esoteric@3times25.net>
Cc: PostgreSQL Performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: High update activity, PostgreSQL vs BigDBMS
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:54:56 +0000
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On þri, 2007-01-02 at 09:04 -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >
> > Actually it has been suggested that a combination of ext2 (for WAL) and
> > ext3 (for data, with data journalling disabled) is a good performer.
> > AFAIK you don't want the overhead of journalling for the WAL partition.
>
> I'm curious as to why ext3 for data with journalling disabled? Would
> that not be the same as ext2?
I believe Alvaro was referring to ext3 with journalling enabled
for meta-data, but not for data.
I also believe this is the standard ext3 configuration, but I
could be wrong on that.
gnari
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