I intend to test Postgres/Bizgres for DWH use. I want to use XFS filesystem to get the best possible performance at FS level(correct me if I am wrong !). Is anyone using XFS for storing/retrieving relatively large amount of data (~ 200GB)? If yes, what about the performance and stability of XFS. I am especially interested in recommendations about XFS mount options and mkfs.xfs options. My setup will be roughly this: 1) 4 SCSI HDD , 128GB each, 2) RAID 0 on the four SCSI HDD disks using LVM (software RAID) There are two other SATA HDD in the server. Server has 2 physical CPUs (XEON at 3 GHz), 4 Logical CPUs, 8 GB RAM, OS = SLES9 SP3 My questions: 1) Should I place external XFS journal on separate device ? 2) What should be the journal buffer size (logbsize) ? 3) How many journal buffers (logbufs) should I configure ? 4) How many allocations groups (for mkfs.xfs) should I configure 5) Is it wortj settion noatime ? 6) What I/O scheduler(elevators) should I use (massive sequencial reads) 7) What is the ideal stripe unit and width (for a RAID device) ? I will appreciate any options, suggestions, pointers. Best Regards. Milen Kulev
