On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 11:18, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 11:07, Joe Maldonado wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I am in a position where I'm torn between using ext2 vs ext3 to keep the > > pg_data, pg_xlog, and pg_clog contents. > > > > The main concern is that switching to ext2 will not respond well to an > > improper shutdown, power loss. > > > > My question is what is the prefered filesystem to keep this data to be > > able to optimize performance and still have some fault tolerance. > > Generally XFS and JFS are considered superior to ext2/3. > > ext3, in my experience, isn't much slower than ext2. Plus the decreased > time required to bring up a server after a power outage is worth > something too. > > Having used ext3 quite a bit, I'd say it's fairly stable and reliable, > but I have seen references here to know, possibly unfixable bugs. > > I've used XFS a few years back, and there was no great gain for what we > were doing at the time, as we were CPU, not I/O bound. Oh, and if you use ext3, definitely turn off atime (use the noatime option at mount time) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
