Jeff,
> > Nope, LOTS of testing, at OSDL, GreenPlum and Sun. For comparison, A
> > Big-Name Proprietary Database doesn't get much more than that either.
>
> I find this claim very suspicious. I get single-threaded reads in
> excess of 1GB/sec with XFS and > 250MB/sec with ext3.
Database reads? Or raw FS reads? It's not the same thing.
Also, we're talking *write speed* here, not read speed.
I also find *your* claim suspicious, since there's no way XFS is 300% faster
than ext3 for the *general* case.
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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
