nick.lello@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ("Lello, Nick") writes: > What is considered the best filesystem to use for postgres data stores ? What is your metric for "best"? Several are plausible: - Fastest, for write workload (read performance doesn't usually vary much based on filesystem) - Fastest, for recovery from problems (e.g. - spontaneous reboot, where journalled options are generally preferred) - Best supported by some vendor (which historically tends to point towards ext3, away from JFS and ReiserFS, with ambiguous results for XFS) - Most reliable (under some defined set of conditions, which tend not to be well-defined) - Perhaps some other metric, such as ability to support atomic backups (where interesting options include ZFS, or running other filesystems layered atop LVM) I could see there being five different answers. -- wm(X,Y):-write(X),write('@'),write(Y). wm('cbbrowne','acm.org'). http://linuxdatabases.info/info/fs.html He doesn't have much of a reputation, or so I've heard. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin