Re: File systems linux !!!

From: Adam Witney <awitney(at)sgul(dot)ac(dot)uk>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: File systems linux !!!
Date: 2007-05-01 08:43:08
Message-ID: C25CBC2C.E49B%awitney@sgul.ac.uk
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On 30/4/07 16:22, in article 463609BA(dot)9010607(at)theendofthetunnel(dot)de, "Hannes
Dorbath" <light(at)theendofthetunnel(dot)de> wrote:

> Excluding warehousing setups, where XFS might give some benefit, any
> modern file system on Linux should perform OK. I'd use what I'm
> comfortable with. In case your data set fits in RAM, it will stay in OS
> buffers all the time anyway.
>
> My choice is XFS, but I wouldn't recommend XFS to anyone unsure to what
> FS to use. There is far to much someone new XFS can do wrong.

Hi,

Could you give a couple of examples of things that could be done wrong? I
have XFS running for my data partition, but I didn't really do much when I
set it up...

Thanks for any advice

adam

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