From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
To: Martin Fandel <martin.fandel@alphyra-evs.de>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Filesystem
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 22:41:22 +1200
Message-ID: <42A033D2.3080609@paradise.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1117782401.4380.37.camel@fandelm.ecommit.de>
References: <1117782401.4380.37.camel@fandelm.ecommit.de>
Martin Fandel wrote:
> Hi @ all,
>
> i have only a little question. Which filesystem is preferred for
> postgresql? I'm plan to use xfs (before i used reiserfs). The reason
> is the xfs_freeze Tool to make filesystem-snapshots.
>
> Is the performance better than reiserfs, is it reliable?
>
I used postgresql with xfs on mandrake 9.0/9.1 a while ago -
reliability was great, performance seemed better than ext3. I didn't
compare with reiserfs - the only time I have ever lost data from a Linux
box has been when I used reiserfs, hence I am not a fan :-(
best wishes
Mark
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