Re: which ext3 fs type should I use for postgresql

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Guillaume Cottenceau <gc(at)mnc(dot)ch>
Cc: Matthew Wakeling <matthew(at)flymine(dot)org>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: which ext3 fs type should I use for postgresql
Date: 2008-05-15 15:38:18
Message-ID: 482C58EA.5090904@commandprompt.com
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Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> Matthew Wakeling <matthew 'at' flymine.org> writes:

> It is still relevant, as with 5% margin, you can afford changing
> that to 0% with tune2fs, just the time for you to start PG and
> remove some data by SQL, then shutdown and set the margin to 5%
> again.
>

I find that if you actually reach that level of capacity failure it is
due to lack of management and likely there is much lower hanging fruit
left over by a lazy dba or sysadmin than having to adjust filesystem
level parameters.

Manage actively and the above change is absolutely irrelevant.

Joshua D. Drake

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