Received: from localhost (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A3709FA372 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 12:02:23 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 53617-08 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 12:02:12 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from janestcapital.com (www.janestcapital.com [66.155.124.107]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFF009F93E5 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 12:02:12 -0400 (AST) Received: from [192.168.250.117] [209.213.205.130] by janestcapital.com with ESMTP (SMTPD-9.10) id A9820568; Wed, 06 Dec 2006 11:02:10 -0500 Message-ID: <4576E982.7090201@janestcapital.com> Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 11:02:10 -0500 From: Brian Hurt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Wipf CC: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: File Systems Compared References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200612/118 X-Sequence-Number: 22174 Brian Wipf wrote: > All tests are with bonnie++ 1.03a Thanks for posting these tests. Now I have actual numbers to beat our storage server provider about the head and shoulders with. Also, I found them interesting in and of themselves. These numbers are close enough to bus-saturation rates that I'd strongly advise new people setting up systems to go this route over spending money on some fancy storage area network solution- unless you need more HD space than fits nicely in one of these raids. If reliability is a concern, buy 2 servers and implement Sloni for failover. Brian