Re: Filesystem benchmarking for pg 8.3.3 server

From: "Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <andrej(dot)groups(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Henrik <henke(at)mac(dot)se>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Filesystem benchmarking for pg 8.3.3 server
Date: 2008-08-08 20:48:05
Message-ID: b35603930808081348i68fb5fd6wa77172395ec3c51a@mail.gmail.com
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On 09/08/2008, Henrik <henke(at)mac(dot)se> wrote:
> But random writes should be faster on a RAID10 as it doesn't need to
> calculate parity. That is why people suggest RAID 10 for datases, correct?

If it had 10 spindles as opposed to 4 ... with 4 drives the "split" is (because
you're striping and mirroring) like writing to two.

Cheers,
Andrej

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