X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@postgresql.org Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A4C19FB200 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 22:51:24 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 08647-01 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 22:51:19 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from vms040pub.verizon.net (vms040pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.40]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B6069FB1F0 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 22:51:19 -0300 (ADT) Received: from osgiliath.mathom.us ([72.66.19.85]) by vms040.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0J4H00IVCBT0DQQ4@vms040.mailsrvcs.net> for pgsql-performance@postgresql.org; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:51:00 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by osgiliath.mathom.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ECCC6F9E3 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:50:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from osgiliath.mathom.us ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (osgiliath.home.mathom.us [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id UGjjjOikGCwJ for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:50:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: by osgiliath.mathom.us (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2955E6FDA7; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:50:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:50:56 -0400 From: Michael Stone Subject: Re: Which benchmark to use for testing FS? In-reply-to: <1156371783.15743.157.camel@dogma.v10.wvs> To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Mail-followup-to: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Message-id: <20060824015054.GE2900@mathom.us> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mathom.us X-Pgp-Fingerprint: 53 FF 38 00 E7 DD 0A 9C 84 52 84 C5 EE DF 7C 88 References: <1156371783.15743.157.camel@dogma.v10.wvs> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.674 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL, FORGED_RCVD_HELO, SPF_PASS X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200608/379 X-Sequence-Number: 20564 On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 03:23:03PM -0700, Jeff Davis wrote: >Also, do ext2 or UFS without soft updates run the risk of losing or >corrupting my data? I suggest you check the list archives; there's a lot of stuff about filesystems and disk configuration in there. Mike Stone