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From: Mark Kirkwood <mark.kirkwood@catalyst.net.nz>
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I'm helping set up a Red Hat 5.5 system for Postgres. I was going to 
recommend xfs for the filesystem - however it seems that xfs is 
supported as a technology preview "layered product" for 5.5. This 
apparently means that the xfs tools are only available via special 
channels.

What are Red Hat using people choosing for a good performing filesystem?

regards

Mark