Kevin, While we're on the topic, do you also diable fsync? We use xfs with battery-backed raid as well. We have had no issues with xfs. I'm curious whether anyone can comment on his experience (good or bad) using xfs/battery-backed-cache/fsync=off. Thanks, Whit On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Mark Kirkwood <mark.kirkwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Also xfs has seen quite a bit of development in these later >> kernels, any thoughts on that? > > We've been using xfs for a few years now with good performance and > no problems other than needing to disable write barriers to get good > performance out of our battery-backed RAID adapter. > > -Kevin > > -- > Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance > -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance