Re: How filesystems matter with PostgreSQL

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I just used standard mkfs for each filesystem and mounted them without options, unless otherwise specified.

On 6/4/10 1:37 PM, Bryan Hinton wrote:
What types of journaling on each fs?


On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Jon Schewe <jpschewe@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On 6/4/10 9:33 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On Friday 04 June 2010 16:25:30 Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Andres Freund <andres@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> On Friday 04 June 2010 14:17:35 Jon Schewe wrote:
>>>
>>>> XFS (logbufs=8): ~4 hours to finish
>>>> ext4: ~1 hour 50 minutes to finish
>>>> ext3: 15 minutes to finish
>>>> ext3 on LVM: 15 minutes to finish
>>>>
>>> My guess is that some of the difference comes from barrier differences.
>>> ext4 uses barriers by default, ext3 does not.
>>>
>> Or, to put it more clearly: the reason ext3 is fast is that it's unsafe.
>>
> Jon: To verify you can enable it via the barrier=1 option during mounting..
>
>
>
First some details:
Linux kernel 2.6.31
postgres version: 8.4.2

More test results:
reiserfs: ~1 hour 50 minutes
ext3 barrier=1: ~15 minutes
ext4 nobarrier: ~15 minutes
jfs: ~15 minutes

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