Re: Re: New Linux xfs/reiser file systems

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, Hackers List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: New Linux xfs/reiser file systems
Date: 2001-05-04 01:55:43
Message-ID: 200105040155.f441thG13609@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Well, arguably if you're setting up a database server then a reasonable DBA
> should think about such things...

Yes, but people have trouble installing PostgreSQL. I can't imagine
walking them through a newfs.

>
> (My 2c)
>
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us]
> Sent: Friday, 4 May 2001 9:42 AM
> To: Christopher Kings-Lynne
> Cc: mlw; Hackers List
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: New Linux xfs/reiser file systems
>
>
> > Just put a note in the installation docs that the place where the database
> > is initialised to should be on a non-Reiser, non-XFS mount...
>
> Sure, we can do that now. What do we do when these are the default file
> systems for Linux? We can tell them to create other types of file
> systems, but that is a pretty big hurdle. I wonder if it would be
> easier to get reiser/xfs to make some modifications.
>
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>

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