From: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Kenneth Cox <kenstir@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Advice configuring ServeRAID 8k for performance
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:41:29 -0400
Message-ID: <4C6591D9.1080206@2ndquadrant.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201008131817.o7DIH1b03550@momjian.us>
References: <201008131817.o7DIH1b03550@momjian.us>
Bruce Momjian wrote:
> We recomment 'data=writeback' for ext3 in our docs
>
Only for the WAL though, which is fine, and I think spelled out clearly
enough in the doc section you quoted. Ken's system has one big RAID
volume, which means he'd be mounting the data files with 'writeback'
too; that's the thing to avoid.
--
Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
greg@2ndQuadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us
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