You'd be well served if you could benchmark several filesystems and see
which one gives the best "performance" (talk about a loaded term) for your
application. Having said that, however, I'd recommend XFS for its
combination of performance and userspace tools (particularly xfsdump and
xfs_freeze).
Cheers,
Murthy
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ben-Nes Michael [mailto:miki@canaan.co.il]
>Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 04:48
>To: postgresql
>Subject: [GENERAL] Recomended FS
>
>
>Hi
>
>I'm upgrading the DB sever hardware and also the Linux OS.
>
>My Questions are:
>
>1. What is the preferred FS to go with ? EXT3, Reiseref, JFS,
>XFS ? ( speed,
>efficiency )
>2. What is the most importent part in the Hardware ? fast HD,
>alot of mem,
>or maybe strong cpu ?
>
>Thanks in Advance
>
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