Re: [PERFORM] Filesystem and Disk Partitioning for New Server Setup

2016-02-24 Thread Wes Vaske (wvaske)
-performance-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Rick Otten Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 9:06 AM To: Dave Stibrany Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Filesystem and Disk Partitioning for New Server Setup An LVM gives you more options. Without an LVM you would add a disk to

Re: [PERFORM] Filesystem and Disk Partitioning for New Server Setup

2016-02-24 Thread Rick Otten
An LVM gives you more options. Without an LVM you would add a disk to the system, create a tablespace, and then move some of your tables over to the new disk. Or, you'd take a full backup, rebuild your file system, and then restore from backup onto the newer, larger disk configuration. Or you'd

Re: [PERFORM] Filesystem and Disk Partitioning for New Server Setup

2016-02-24 Thread Dave Stibrany
Thanks for the advice, Rick. I have an 8 disk chassis, so possible extension paths down the line are adding raid1 for WALs, adding another RAID10, or creating a 8 disk RAID10. Would LVM make this type of addition easier? On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 6:08 AM, Rick Otten wrote: > > 1) I'd go with xfs