References: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2005-01/msg00131.php http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2004-05/msg00130.php http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2003-08/msg00191.php http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.misc/msg/b299a71fd540c2b8?q=ext2+corrupt+%22power+failure%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&rnum=9 http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/papers/filesystem-perf-tm.pdf http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/webcolumns/2002/techarticles/scalzo_linux02.html http://jamesthornton.com/hotlist/linux-filesystems/ It took me all of about 10 minutes to find all of those. But I've got work to do, so I'll leave further research here to the rest of the list. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster