Re: Bill Moran 2014-11-25 <20141125111630.d05d58a9eb083c7cf80ed9f8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Anything with a journal is a performance problem. PostgreSQL effectivly > does its own journalling with the WAL logs. That's not to say that there's > no value to crash recovery to having a journalling filesystem, but it's > just to say that our experience showed journaling filesystems to be slower. > That rules out ext4, unless you disable the journal. I seem to remember > ext4 with journalling disabled being one of the faster filesystems, but I > could be remembering wrong. If you are using a non-journalling FS, you'll be waiting for a full fsck after a system crash. Not sure that's an improvement. Christoph -- cb@xxxxxxxx | http://www.df7cb.de/ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
