From: Andy Colson <andy@squeakycode.net>
To: Rory Campbell-Lange <rory@campbell-lange.net>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Advice sought : new database server
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:45:38 -0600
Message-ID: <4F53C662.1020100@squeakycode.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120304095838.GA3064@campbell-lange.net>
References: <20120304095838.GA3064@campbell-lange.net>
On 03/04/2012 03:58 AM, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> I'd be grateful for advice on specifying the new server
>
> providing about 230GB of usable storage, 150GB of which is on an LV
> providing reconfigurable space for the databases which are served off an
> XFS formatted volume.
>
Do you mean LVM? I've heard that LVM limits IO, so if you want full speed you might wanna drop LVM. (And XFS supports increasing fs size, and when are you ever really gonna want to decrease fs size?).
-Andy
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