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From: Ron <rjpeace@earthlink.net>
To: Tino Wildenhain <tino@wildenhain.de>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: 15,000 tables
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 13:48:11 -0500
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Agreed.  Also the odds of fs corruption or data loss are higher in a 
non journaling fs.  Best practice seems to be to use a journaling fs 
but to put the fs log on dedicated spindles separate from the actual 
fs or pg_xlog.

Ron

At 01:40 PM 12/1/2005, Tino Wildenhain wrote:
>Am Donnerstag, den 01.12.2005, 10:07 -0800 schrieb Gavin M. Roy:
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > I'm a fan of ReiserFS, and I can be wrong, but I believe using a
> > journaling filesystem for the PgSQL database could be slowing things
> > down.
>
>Have a 200G+ database, someone pulling the power plug
>or a regular reboot after a year or so.
>
>Wait for the fsck to finish.
>
>Now think again :-)
>
>++Tino
>
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