Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD

On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 12:01 +0100, Péter Kovács wrote:
> Richard Huxton wrote:
> > Bart McFarling wrote:
> >> We are installing a new Postgresql server, it will not run anything else
> >> but postgresql. We are currently looking at moving from a RHEL 4.0
> >> system to FreeBSD.
> >> Does one OS offer better performace over the other when running
> >> postgresql?
> >
> > I'd guess the crucial thing will be:
> > 1. Your experience in admin-ing each.
> > 2. Hardware support for each.
> >
> > Some theoretical advantage isn't any use if your RAID array has poor
> > drivers on Linux or you don't know how to tune Free-BSD.
> Interesting. Instinctively, I'd have thought that, being more
> main-stream, Linux has a better supply of drivers than Free-BSD. Have
> you had any experience with Linux RAID drivers being poorer than Free BSD's?

You have to do your homework on FreeBSD as much as you do Linux. Most
RAID Drivers have caveats.

Joshua D. Drake

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