On 9/12/07, Tino Wildenhain <tino@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alternatively you could use XFS but I'm not sure if it performs > better on failing hardware. I guess not. Actually I've seen anecdotal evidence that XFS with its aggressive write-caching has caused data-loss in the event of power-failures. I'm not certain how sensible Reiser, which is optimised for efficiency with small files, would be for a postgres data directory in terms of performance. ext3 or jfs maybe? > Regards > Tino Cheers, Andrej ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend