Re: file system and raid performance

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Mark Wong <markwkm(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: david(at)lang(dot)hm, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org, Gabrielle Roth <gorthx(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: file system and raid performance
Date: 2008-08-15 19:22:59
Message-ID: 200808151922.m7FJMxJ21964@momjian.us
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Mark Wong wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:04 PM, <david(at)lang(dot)hm> wrote:
> > On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Mark Wong wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> We've thrown together some results from simple i/o tests on Linux
> >> comparing various file systems, hardware and software raid with a
> >> little bit of volume management:
> >>
> >> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/HP_ProLiant_DL380_G5_Tuning_Guide

Mark, very useful analysis. I am curious why you didn't test
'data=writeback' on ext3; 'data=writeback' is the recommended mount
method for that file system, though I see that is not mentioned in our
official documentation.

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