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From: Jim C. Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com>
To: Steve Poe <steve.poe@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Postgresql Performance on an HP DL385 and
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:29:26 -0500
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On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 01:09:04PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 12:05:46PM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> >Wow, interesting. IIRC, XFS is lower performing than ext3,
> 
> For xlog, maybe. For data, no. Both are definately slower than ext2 for 
> xlog, which is another reason to have xlog on a small filesystem which 
> doesn't need metadata journalling.

Are 'we' sure that such a setup can't lose any data? I'm worried about
files getting lost when they get written out before the metadata does.
-- 
Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant      jnasby@pervasive.com
Pervasive Software      http://pervasive.com    work: 512-231-6117
vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf       cell: 512-569-9461

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