From: Alan Hodgson <ahodgson@simkin.ca>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Effects of setting linux block device readahead size
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:41:55 -0700
Message-ID: <200809111541.55525@hal.medialogik.com> (raw)
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<alpine.DEB.1.10.0809111529120.15169@asgard.lang.hm>
On Thursday 11 September 2008, david@lang.hm wrote:
> while I agree with you in theory, in practice I've seen multiple
> partitions cause far more problems than they have prevented (due to the
> partitions ending up not being large enough and having to be resized
> after they fill up, etc) so I tend to go in the direction of a few large
> partitions.
I used to feel this way until LVM became usable. LVM plus online resizable
filesystems really makes multiple partitions manageable.
--
Alan
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