Re: Linux File Systems and Postgres (or dbs in general)

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, operationsengineer1@yahoo.com wrote:

> hi all, is there an optimal linux file system choice
> for a system that will be used as a db server?
>
> i seem to recall having read somewhere that there were
> at least two choices (one being journaling) and one
> set up was best for file management (desktop) and
> another was best for database management.

I am generally biased towards SGI's XFS. Otherwise JFS and Reiserfs may 
also be good candidates.


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