Re: Re: New Linux xfs/reiser file systems

From: Martín Marqués <martin(at)bugs(dot)unl(dot)edu(dot)ar>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg(at)redhat(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Re: New Linux xfs/reiser file systems
Date: 2001-05-09 11:30:03
Message-ID: 989407803.3af92a3bab08b@bugs.unl.edu.ar
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Quoting Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>:

> > I'm concearned about this because we are going to switch our
> > fist server to a Journaling FS (on Linux). Searching and asking
> > I found out that for our short term work we need ReiserFS (it's
> > for a proxy server). Put the interesting thing was that for
> > large (very large) files, everybody recomends XFS. The drawback
> > of XFS is that it's very, very sloooow when deleting files.
>
> Why do all these file systems seem to have one major negative?

In the case of XFS they told me that it was slow deleting, but I guess that they
were trying to tell me that reiser would do the job on a proxy cache better then
XFS.
Everybody put there thumbs-up to XFS when talking about databases (because of
the large file size).

Saludos... :-)

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