On Tuesday 01 June 2010, Mark Kirkwood <mark.kirkwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm helping set up a Red Hat 5.5 system for Postgres. I was going to > recommend xfs for the filesystem - however it seems that xfs is > supported as a technology preview "layered product" for 5.5. This > apparently means that the xfs tools are only available via special > channels. > > What are Red Hat using people choosing for a good performing filesystem? > I've run PostgreSQL on XFS on CentOS for years. It works well. Make sure you have a good battery-backed RAID controller under it (true for all filesystems). -- "No animals were harmed in the recording of this episode. We tried but that damn monkey was just too fast." -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance