Re: Best Linux Distribution

Any info about NetBSD?

Bruno

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Story [mailto:matthewstory(at)gmail(dot)com]
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 3:16 PM
To: Bruno Almeida do Lago
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Best Linux Distribution

for the stability of BSD you should look into their development
categories, it all depends on which release you're using, 4 right NOW
is rock solid, 5.3 is also quite solid. Our performance has gone up
100% since we switched from suse to FreeBSD.

regards,
matt

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:28:43 -0200, Bruno Almeida do Lago
<teolupus(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I'd like to hear from you all experiences with PostgreSQL and FreeBSD!
>
> Which filesystem is used on FreeBSD? Is it journaling?
>
> What about the performance and stability???
>
> I've heard a lot about FreeBSD, but never had the opportunity of testing
it
> intensively.
>
>
> C ya,
> Bruno
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of
mstory(at)uchicago(dot)edu
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 12:47 AM
> To: David Garamond
> Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Best Linux Distribution
>
> Does it have to be linux? I've never had as much success with PostGresql
on
> linux as i have on FreeBSD 5.3
>
> matt
>
> Quoting David Garamond <lists(at)zara(dot)6(dot)isreserved(dot)com>:
>
> > Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > > Well that isnt exactly true. EXT3 is a bolt on to EXT2 which was
always
> > > there. Reiser is also a long time kernel at least from 2.2.
> >
> > I remember first using reiser3 by patching early 2.4 kernels. IIRC,
> > reiser was not in linus tree until 2.4.7 or so (not sure which release)
> > and it went in after a great debate/controversy.
> >
> > So I don't think reiser is available in 2.2.
> >
> > > XFS is also
> > > a long time Linux supporter and its inclusion into the main tree had
> > > nothing to do with quality.
> >
> > --
> > dave
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