On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Craig James <craig_james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Greg Smith <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Given the current quality of Linux code, I hesitate to use anything but >> ext3 >> because I consider that just barely reliable enough even as the most >> popular >> filesystem by far. JFS and XFS have some benefits to them, but none so >> compelling to make up for how much less testing they get. That said, >> there >> seem to be a fair number of people happily running high-performance >> PostgreSQL instances on XFS. > > I thought the common wisdom was to use ext2 for the WAL, since the WAL is a > journal system, and ext3 would essentially be journaling the journal. Is > that not true? Yep, ext2 for pg_xlog is fine. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
