Re: How filesystems matter with PostgreSQL

On Friday 04 June 2010 14:17:35 Jon Schewe wrote:
> Some interesting data about different filesystems I tried with
> PostgreSQL and how it came out.
>
> I have an application that is backed in postgres using Java JDBC to
> access it. The tests were all done on an opensuse 11.2 64-bit machine,
> on the same hard drive (just ran mkfs between each test) on the same
> input with the same code base. All filesystems were created with the
> default options.
>
> XFS (logbufs=8): ~4 hours to finish
> ext4: ~1 hour 50 minutes to finish
> ext3: 15 minutes to finish
> ext3 on LVM: 15 minutes to finish
>

Hi Jon,

Any chance you can do the same test with reiserfs?

Thanks,

Joost