On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Carmen Wai wrote:
> I would like to know whether there is any different in installing Postgresql
> on the Linux system with file system of EXT2 or EXT3. I have two machines
> with idential OS (Red Hat 7.3 install with postgresql 7.3.4) but with
> different file system, 1 is EXT2 and the other is EXT3. When I insert 10,000
> records to the two machines, I found that the machine with EXT2 insert much
> quicker than the other with EXT3.
>
> Is postgresqk perform better with EXT2 file system?
Carmen,
Consider the overhead in having the security of a journaling file system
when you make your comparisons.
Rich
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