From: | Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org> |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Linux Filesystem for PG |
Date: | 2005-03-28 13:42:15 |
Message-ID: | m3sm2f99ag.fsf@knuth.cbbrowne.com |
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After a long battle with technology, jday(at)gisolutions(dot)us ("Joseph M. Day"), an earthling, wrote:
> Can anyone recemmend a filesystem to use for Postgres. I currently
> have one table that has 80 mil rows, and will take roughly 8GB of
> space without indexing. Obviously EXT3 will die for a file size this
> large. Any suggestions with be helpful.
Actually, it is common for "obvious" facts to be entirely incorrect.
-> ext3 wouldn't "die" with a file of that size; it supports files up
to about 2TB in size, and 8GB shouldn't be an "uncomfortable" size
-> PostgreSQL normally switches to a new file at 1GB intervals, so
that no file is ever larger than 1GB in size
That's not to say that ext3 would be my "favorite" for the purpose;
while I am not entirely decided as to the relative merits of JFS and
XFS, I'd generally prefer them to ext3.
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