On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:03:31 -0800, Joshua D. Drake <jd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > > >No difference whatsoever from PostgreSQL's point of view. Use whichever > >distribution is easiest for you to administer. After all, there's no > >point installing Postgres on a machine you don't know how to maintain > >or tune :) > > > > > Actually there is a difference from PostgreSQL's point of view :) > Namely in filesystems. The default filesystem on whitebox, RHEL and > Fedora is EXT3 which really isn't that great. On whitebox & RHEL ext3 is really the only choice. However, FC3 provides all the other major filesystems as choices (XFS, reiser). -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
