On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 14:36 -0500, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On 9/5/07, Trevor Talbot <quension@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 9/5/07, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 9/5/07, Carlo Stonebanks <stonec.register@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Right, additionally NTFS is really nothing to use on any serious disc > > > > > array. > > > > Do you mean that I will not see any big improvement if I upgrade the disk > > > > subsystem because the client is using NTFS (i.e. Windows) I haven't had a corrupt NTFS filesystem is ages; even with hardware failures. If NTFS was inherently unstable there wouldn't be hundreds of thousands of large M$-SQL and Exchange instances. > And there's the issue that with windows / NTFS that when one process > opens a file for read, it locks it for all other users. This isn't true; the mode of a file open is up to the application. Possibly lots of Windows applications are stupid or sloppy in how they manage files but that isn't a flaw in NTFS. -- Adam Tauno Williams, Network & Systems Administrator Consultant - http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com Developer - http://www.opengroupware.org ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
