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On 02/06/10 15:26, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> What's your time horizon?  RHEL6 will have full support for xfs.
> On RHEL5 I really wouldn't consider anything except ext3.
>
>    
Yeah, RHEL6 seems like the version we would prefer - unfortunately time 
frame is the next few days. Awesome - thanks for the quick reply!

regards

Mark