Re: Journaling file systems

From: Jeff Self <jself(at)nngov(dot)com>
To: Peter Darley <pdarley(at)kinesis-cem(dot)com>
Cc: Pgsql-Admin <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Journaling file systems
Date: 2002-02-26 18:18:57
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There are articles over at IBM about journaled file systems. One of them
talked about incredible performance from ext3 in busy environments. The
article is here:

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs8.html

On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 11:47, Peter Darley wrote:
> Jeff (or anyone else),
> Is there some kind of file system (for Linux) that will provide better
> performance than ext2? XFS or ReiserFS maybe?
> Thanks,
> Peter Darley
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Self [mailto:jself(at)nngov(dot)com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 8:22 AM
> To: Peter Darley
> Cc: Pgsql-Admin
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Journaling file systems
>
>
> Journaled file systems will typically slow down a database somewhat.
>
> On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 10:29, Peter Darley wrote:
> > Friends,
> > I'm wondering if a journaling file system, like ext3, will make much
> > difference with the speed or reliability of PostgreSQL? Is it worth the
> > work to switch over?
> > Thanks,
> > Peter Darley
> >
> >
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