> Guys, just so you know:
>
> OSDL did some testing and found Ext3 to be perhaps the worst FS for
> PostgreSQL
> -- although this testing was with the default options. Ext3 involved an
> almost 40% write performance penalty compared with Ext2, whereas the
> penalty
> for ReiserFS and JFS was less than 10%.
>
> This concurs with my personal experience.
I had exactly the same experience
