IMHO SGI's XFS is your best bet, as is has *very* good scalability on file
size and file count.
Also the .2 release removes a deadlock when the FS in under extreme (and i
mean extreme) usage.
> Jeff (or anyone else),
> Is there some kind of file system (for Linux) that will provide better
> performance than ext2? XFS or ReiserFS maybe?
> Thanks,
> Peter Darley
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Self [mailto:jself@nngov.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 8:22 AM
> To: Peter Darley
> Cc: Pgsql-Admin
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Journaling file systems
>
>
> Journaled file systems will typically slow down a database somewhat.