Re: [GENERAL] ext3

2005-01-17 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Am Montag, den 17.01.2005, 17:47 -0800 schrieb Jeff Davis: > On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 07:43 +0700, David Garamond wrote: > > Tzahi Fadida wrote: > > > I recommend you don't use ext3 for any database: > > > http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2005/Jan/0641.html > > > > > > apparently its still bugg

Re: [GENERAL] ext3

2005-01-17 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Hi, Am Dienstag, den 18.01.2005, 07:43 +0700 schrieb David Garamond: > Tzahi Fadida wrote: > > I recommend you don't use ext3 for any database: > > http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2005/Jan/0641.html > > > > apparently its still buggy. > > So what is the recommended fs under Linux? I don't

Re: [GENERAL] ext3

2005-01-17 Thread Tom Lane
Jeff Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In other words, does PostgreSQL assume that the filesystem at least > journals the metadata? Postgres assumes that the filesystem can take care of itself, which we define as not losing or corrupting successfully-fsynced data. The original BSD filesystem de

Re: [GENERAL] ext3

2005-01-17 Thread William Yu
You may also want to test data=journal for ext3. Most of the time, this is slower but for databases with logging and mail servers, it can be faster. Mage wrote: Hello, Gabor Szima asked us to translate the letter below. "I read that ext3 writeback mode is recommended for PostgreSQL. I ma

Re: [GENERAL] ext3

2005-01-17 Thread Jeff Davis
On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 07:43 +0700, David Garamond wrote: > Tzahi Fadida wrote: > > I recommend you don't use ext3 for any database: > > http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2005/Jan/0641.html > > > > apparently its still buggy. > > So what is the recommended fs under Linux? I don't need the bes

Re: [GENERAL] ext3

2005-01-17 Thread Lonni J Friedman
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:54:45 -0800, Joshua D. Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Garamond wrote: > > > Tzahi Fadida wrote: > > > >> I recommend you don't use ext3 for any database: > >> http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2005/Jan/0641.html > >> > >> apparently its still buggy. > > > > >

Re: [GENERAL] ext3

2005-01-17 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I typically use XFS when given the choice. On Jan 17, 2005, at 7:52 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, David Garamond wrote: So what is the recommended fs under Linux? I don't need the best speed/throughput, but I prefer not to use ext2 due to

Re: [GENERAL] ext3

2005-01-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
David Garamond wrote: Tzahi Fadida wrote: I recommend you don't use ext3 for any database: http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2005/Jan/0641.html apparently its still buggy. So what is the recommended fs under Linux? I don't need the best speed/throughput, but I prefer not to use ext2 due to l

Re: [GENERAL] ext3

2005-01-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, David Garamond wrote: > So what is the recommended fs under Linux? I don't need the best > speed/throughput, but I prefer not to use ext2 due to long fsck time. I > also tend to avoid reiser3, it has given us many griefs in the past. XFS? dave, I have no large databases h

Re: [GENERAL] ext3

2005-01-17 Thread David Garamond
Tzahi Fadida wrote: I recommend you don't use ext3 for any database: http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2005/Jan/0641.html apparently its still buggy. So what is the recommended fs under Linux? I don't need the best speed/throughput, but I prefer not to use ext2 due to long fsck time. I also

Re: [GENERAL] ext3

2005-01-17 Thread PFC
Gabor Szima asked us to translate the letter below. "I read that ext3 writeback mode is recommended for PostgreSQL. I made some tests. data=ordereddata=writeback -- restoredb: 2m16.790s

Re: [GENERAL] ext3

2005-01-17 Thread Tzahi Fadida
anuary 17, 2005 9:01 PM > To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Subject: [GENERAL] ext3 > > > Hello, > > Gabor Szima asked us to translate the letter below. > > "I read that ext3 writeback mode is recommended for > PostgreSQL. I made > some tests.

Re: [GENERAL] ext3

2005-01-17 Thread Lonni J Friedman
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 20:00:46 +0100, Mage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Gabor Szima asked us to translate the letter below. > > "I read that ext3 writeback mode is recommended for PostgreSQL. I made > some tests. > > data=ordereddata=writeback > ---

[GENERAL] ext3

2005-01-17 Thread Mage
Hello, Gabor Szima asked us to translate the letter below. "I read that ext3 writeback mode is recommended for PostgreSQL. I made some tests. data=ordereddata=writeback -- restoredb: 2m

Re: [GENERAL] ext3 block size

2003-08-14 Thread scott.marlowe
We're running on ext2 on our box, with nightly backups. There's not much in the database we can't recreate from feeds, and we aren't doing financials on it. I've also heard of Reiser having had some problems on SMP systems. Of course, our box hasn't gone down unexpectedly ever, either due to O

Re: [GENERAL] ext3 block size

2003-08-14 Thread DeJuan Jackson
It was RH8 where I saw the issues. It was so bad that I had one server freeze 20 minutes after reboot. And it wasn't a hardware issue; that server is now running with several months of uptime under heavy load. Jonathan Bartlett wrote: What distribution are you running? I and a lot of other pe

[GENERAL] ext3 block size

2003-08-09 Thread Wilson A. Galafassi Jr.
hello. my database size is 5GB. what is the block size recommend? thanks wilson  

Re: [GENERAL] ext3 block size

2003-08-06 Thread DeJuan Jackson
Don't know the answer to your question, but I thought I would just pipe in and say that if this is an SMP (has multiple processors) Linux box you don't want to use ext3!!! I used ext3 on my SMP box here at work and now I can't have children (I guess it would help if I got a wife first)!! But i