| From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "J(dot) Roeleveld" <j(dot)roeleveld(at)softhome(dot)net>, pgsql-list <pgsql-general(at)hub(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] server hardware recommendations (the archives aredead) |
| Date: | 1999-12-16 02:10:13 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.21.9912152209160.651-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> > > What filesystem? I know (thank god) very little about Linux, but
> > > there have been comments here by some Linux folks (Thomas, wasn't it
> > > you?) that indicated that ext2fs sucks for this? Are you running with
> > > fsync() on or off?
> >
> > What is the problem with ext2fs? Is it just performance? or is there a
> > serious chance for me losing data?
>
> The only comment made was something I said about raw devices on Linux.
Didn't Thomas make some comment,at one point, about not using PostgreSQL
over ext2fs...I know he does use Linux, I just figured he was using a
different fs then ext2s...
Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org
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