This site:
http://fsbench.netnation.com/
has some decent generic file system benchmarks that may help with your
decision.
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 10:32, Murthy Kambhampaty wrote:
> You'd be well served if you could benchmark several filesystems and see
> which one gives the best "performance" (talk about a loaded term) for your
> application. Having said that, however, I'd recommend XFS for its
> combination of performance and userspace tools (particularly xfsdump and
> xfs_freeze).
>
> Cheers,
> Murthy
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Ben-Nes Michael [mailto:miki@canaan.co.il]
> >Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 04:48
> >To: postgresql
> >Subject: [GENERAL] Recomended FS
> >
> >
> >Hi
> >
> >I'm upgrading the DB sever hardware and also the Linux OS.
> >
> >My Questions are:
> >
> >1. What is the preferred FS to go with ? EXT3, Reiseref, JFS,
> >XFS ? ( speed,
> >efficiency )
> >2. What is the most importent part in the Hardware ? fast HD,
> >alot of mem,
> >or maybe strong cpu ?
> >
> >Thanks in Advance
> >
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