Re: XFS vs Ext3, and schedulers, for WAL - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: XFS vs Ext3, and schedulers, for WAL
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Msg-id 4CB34E50.3080201@agliodbs.com
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In response to XFS vs Ext3, and schedulers, for WAL  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
Responses Re: XFS vs Ext3, and schedulers, for WAL  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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> There's a number of blog tests floating around comparing XFS and Ext3,
> and the various Linux schedulers, for PGDATA or for an all-in-one mount.
>
> However, the WAL has a rather particular write pattern, and it's
> reasonable to assume that it shouldn't be optimized the same way as
> PGDATA.  Has anyone done any head-to-heads for WAL drive configuration
> changes?

That would be a "no", then.  Looks like I have my work cut out for me ...

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