From: | Bryan Hinton <bryan(at)bryanhinton(dot)com> |
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To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org, Jon Schewe <jpschewe(at)mtu(dot)net> |
Subject: | Re: How filesystems matter with PostgreSQL |
Date: | 2010-06-04 18:20:09 |
Message-ID: | AANLkTikj7QNTV_6XlHPJnCYPAE5kh4ugxns14VoUxD0w@mail.gmail.com |
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UFS2 w/ soft updates on FreeBSD might be an interesting addition to the list
of test cases
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> On Friday 04 June 2010 16:25:30 Tom Lane wrote:
> > Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> > > On Friday 04 June 2010 14:17:35 Jon Schewe wrote:
> > >> 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
> > >
> > > My guess is that some of the difference comes from barrier differences.
> > > ext4 uses barriers by default, ext3 does not.
> > Or, to put it more clearly: the reason ext3 is fast is that it's unsafe.
> Jon: To verify you can enable it via the barrier=1 option during mounting..
>
> Andres
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