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Re: xfs perform a lot better than ext4 [WAS: Re: Two identical systems, radically different performance] - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: xfs perform a lot better than ext4 [WAS: Re: Two identical systems, radically different performance]
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In response to Re: xfs perform a lot better than ext4 [WAS: Re: Two identical systems, radically different performance]  (Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net>)
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On 12/05/2012 11:51 AM, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
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> I thought that postgreSQL did its own journalling, if that is the
> proper term, so why not use an ext2 file system to lower overhead?


Postgres journalling will not save you from a corrupt file system.

cheers

andrew

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