| From: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> |
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| To: | Chris Sutton <chris(at)smoothcorp(dot)com> |
| Cc: | <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: ext3 filesystem / linux 7.3 |
| Date: | 2003-04-03 17:45:50 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.33.0304031045230.19813-100000@css120.ihs.com |
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On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Chris Sutton wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> > > I had previously understood that ext3 was a bad thing with PostgreSQL and I
> > > went way above and beyond to create it on an Ext2 filesystem (the only one
> > > on the server) and mount that.
>
> We recently started using Postgres on a new database server running RH 7.3
> and ext3. Due to some kernel problems the machine would crash at random
> times. Each time it crashed it came back up extremly easily with no data
> loss. If we were on ext2 coming back up after a crash probably wouldn't
> have been quite as easy.
>
> We have since given up on RH 7.3 and gone with RH Enterprise ES. Just an
> FIY for any of you out there thinking about moving to RH 7.3 or those that
> are having problems with 7.3 and ext3.
We're still running RH 7.2 due to issues we had with 7.3 as well.
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