Re: [GENERAL] Debian problem...

2007-09-28 Thread Vivek Khera
On Sep 28, 2007, at 5:09 AM, Tom Allison wrote: I know reiserfs does better performance wise, but there's no point in going fast if you can't steer. I recently had to replace 16 Western Digital 10kRPM SATA drives with Hitachi 7.2kRPM drives because the WD drives kept randomly (and falsel

Re: [GENERAL] Debian problem...

2007-09-28 Thread Tom Allison
On Sep 12, 2007, at 3:52 AM, Tino Wildenhain wrote: Hi, Tom Allison schrieb: On Sep 11, 2007, at 5:49 AM, Tom Allison wrote: I was able get my database working again. Never figured out why... My database data (sorry about the redundancy there) is sitting on a RAID1 array with LVM and Rei

Re: [GENERAL] Debian problem...

2007-09-12 Thread Andrej Ricnik-Bay
On 9/12/07, Tino Wildenhain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.

Re: [GENERAL] Debian problem...

2007-09-12 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Hi, Tom Allison schrieb: On Sep 11, 2007, at 5:49 AM, Tom Allison wrote: I was able get my database working again. Never figured out why... My database data (sorry about the redundancy there) is sitting on a RAID1 array with LVM and ReiserFS. I've heard some dissention about the use of

Re: [GENERAL] Debian problem...

2007-09-11 Thread Tom Allison
On Sep 11, 2007, at 5:49 AM, Tom Allison wrote: I was able get my database working again. Never figured out why... My database data (sorry about the redundancy there) is sitting on a RAID1 array with LVM and ReiserFS. I've heard some dissention about the use of ReiserFS and was wondering

Re: [GENERAL] Debian problem...

2007-09-11 Thread Tom Allison
I was able get my database working again. Never figured out why... On Sep 11, 2007, at 12:52 AM, 李彦 Ian Li wrote: Maybe some Debian specific commands will help: pg_lsclusters: list clusters you have on the machine; pg_dropcluster: drop an existing cluster; pg_createcluster: create new cluster.

Re: [GENERAL] Debian problem...

2007-09-10 Thread 李彦 Ian Li
Maybe some Debian specific commands will help: pg_lsclusters: list clusters you have on the machine; pg_dropcluster: drop an existing cluster; pg_createcluster: create new cluster. Regards. Tom Allison wrote: Ran into a problem. I hosed up postgresql by deleting the data directory. So I though

Re: [GENERAL] Debian problem...

2007-09-10 Thread Ron St-Pierre
There's likely someone here that can help you, if you can give us some more info. To start with, did the uninstall even work? Ron Tom Allison wrote: Ran into a problem. I hosed up postgresql by deleting the data directory. So I thought I would just uninstall and reinstall postgres using De

Re: [GENERAL] Debian problem...

2007-09-10 Thread Stephen Frost
* Tom Allison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I hosed up postgresql by deleting the data directory. erp. That's no good. > So I thought I would just uninstall and reinstall postgres using Debian > packages. > Now I have nothing working. Huh, odd, that'd normally work, I think. > Wondering if any

[GENERAL] Debian problem...

2007-09-10 Thread Tom Allison
Ran into a problem. I hosed up postgresql by deleting the data directory. So I thought I would just uninstall and reinstall postgres using Debian packages. Now I have nothing working. Wondering if anyone here has any suggestions on what to do with a Debian installation. If not, I'm checki