| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>, Andrew McMillan <andrew(at)catalyst(dot)net(dot)nz>, huang yaqin <hyq(at)gthome(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: good pc but bad performance,why? |
| Date: | 2004-04-08 03:12:07 |
| Message-ID: | 200404080312.i383C7N28711@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> But it should be okay to set the filesystem to journal only its own
> >> metadata. There's no need for it to journal file contents.
>
> > Can you set ext2 to journal metadata? I didn't know it could do that.
>
> No, ext2 has no journal at all AFAIK. But I believe ext3 has an option
> to journal or not journal file contents, and at least on a Postgres-only
> volume you'd want to turn that off.
Right, ext3 has that option. I don't think XFS needs it (it does
meta-data only by default).
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