From: | "Ben-Nes Michael" <miki(at)canaan(dot)co(dot)il> |
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To: | "Nick Burrett" <nick(at)dsvr(dot)net>, "postgresql" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Recomended FS |
Date: | 2003-10-20 12:48:01 |
Message-ID: | 003401c39708$659c9900$0500a8c0@canaan.co.il |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Burrett" <nick(at)dsvr(dot)net>
To: "Ben-Nes Michael" <miki(at)canaan(dot)co(dot)il>
Cc: "Peter Childs" <blue(dot)dragon(at)blueyonder(dot)co(dot)uk>; "Shridhar Daithankar"
<shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in>; "postgresql"
<pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Recomended FS
> Ben-Nes Michael wrote:
>
> > But still the greatest question is what FS to put on ?
> >
> > I heard Reiesref can handle small files very quickly.
>
> Switching from ext3 to reiserfs for our name servers reduced the time
> taken to load 110,000 zones from 45 minutes to 5 minutes.
>
> However for a database, I don't think you can really factor this type of
> stuff into the equation. The performance benefits you get from
> different filesystem types are going to be small compared to the
> modifications that you can make to your database structure, queries and
> applications. The actual algorithms used in processing the data will be
> much slower than the time taken to fetch the data off disk.
So you say the FS has no real speed impact on the SB ?
In my pg data folder i have 2367 files, some big some small.
>
> --
> Nick Burrett
> Network Engineer, Designer Servers Ltd. http://www.dsvr.co.uk
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