Re: [PERFORM] File system choice for Red Hat systems

2010-06-02 Thread Mark Kirkwood
On 03/06/10 02:53, Alan Hodgson wrote: On Tuesday 01 June 2010, Mark Kirkwood wrote: I'm helping set up a Red Hat 5.5 system for Postgres. I was going to recommend xfs for the filesystem - however it seems that xfs is supported as a technology preview "layered product" for 5.5. This apparent

Re: [PERFORM] File system choice for Red Hat systems

2010-06-02 Thread Wales Wang
you can try Scientific Linux 5.x,it plus XFS and some other soft for HPC based on CentOS. It had XFS for years --- On Wed, 6/2/10, Alan Hodgson wrote: > From: Alan Hodgson > Subject: Re: [PERFORM] File system choice for Red Hat systems > To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.o

Re: [PERFORM] File system choice for Red Hat systems

2010-06-02 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Tuesday 01 June 2010, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > I'm helping set up a Red Hat 5.5 system for Postgres. I was going to > recommend xfs for the filesystem - however it seems that xfs is > supported as a technology preview "layered product" for 5.5. This > apparently means that the xfs tools are only

Re: [PERFORM] File system choice for Red Hat systems

2010-06-01 Thread Greg Smith
Mark Kirkwood wrote: Yeah, RHEL6 seems like the version we would prefer - unfortunately time frame is the next few days. Awesome - thanks for the quick reply! The RHEL6 beta is out, I'm running it, and I expect a straightforward upgrade path to the final release--I think I can just keep grabbi

Re: [PERFORM] File system choice for Red Hat systems

2010-06-01 Thread Mark Kirkwood
On 02/06/10 17:17, Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote: For xfs, you may want to read this: http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/en/2010/04/the-return-of-xfs-on-linux.html Thanks - yes RHEL6 is the version we would have liked to use I suspect! Regards Mark -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-p

Re: [PERFORM] File system choice for Red Hat systems

2010-06-01 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 15:06 +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > What are Red Hat using people choosing for a good performing > filesystem? ext2 (xlogs) and ext3 (data). For xfs, you may want to read this: http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/en/2010/04/the-return-of-xfs-on-linux.html Regards, -- Devrim GÜND

Re: [PERFORM] File system choice for Red Hat systems

2010-06-01 Thread Mark Kirkwood
On 02/06/10 15:26, Tom Lane wrote: What's your time horizon? RHEL6 will have full support for xfs. On RHEL5 I really wouldn't consider anything except ext3. Yeah, RHEL6 seems like the version we would prefer - unfortunately time frame is the next few days. Awesome - thanks for the quick r

Re: [PERFORM] File system choice for Red Hat systems

2010-06-01 Thread Tom Lane
Mark Kirkwood writes: > I'm helping set up a Red Hat 5.5 system for Postgres. I was going to > recommend xfs for the filesystem - however it seems that xfs is > supported as a technology preview "layered product" for 5.5. This > apparently means that the xfs tools are only available via special

[PERFORM] File system choice for Red Hat systems

2010-06-01 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I'm helping set up a Red Hat 5.5 system for Postgres. I was going to recommend xfs for the filesystem - however it seems that xfs is supported as a technology preview "layered product" for 5.5. This apparently means that the xfs tools are only available via special channels. What are Red Hat