From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mnc.ch>
Cc: Matthew Wakeling <matthew@flymine.org>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: which ext3 fs type should I use for postgresql
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 08:38:18 -0700
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Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> Matthew Wakeling <matthew 'at' flymine.org> writes:
> It is still relevant, as with 5% margin, you can afford changing
> that to 0% with tune2fs, just the time for you to start PG and
> remove some data by SQL, then shutdown and set the margin to 5%
> again.
>
I find that if you actually reach that level of capacity failure it is
due to lack of management and likely there is much lower hanging fruit
left over by a lazy dba or sysadmin than having to adjust filesystem
level parameters.
Manage actively and the above change is absolutely irrelevant.
Joshua D. Drake
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