Re: file system and raid performance - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Mark Wong
Subject Re: file system and raid performance
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Msg-id 70c01d1d0808151231m407a52cbo8069200fe8078aa2@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: file system and raid performance  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
List pgsql-performance
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Mark Wong wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:04 PM,  <david@lang.hm> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Mark Wong wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> We've thrown together some results from simple i/o tests on Linux
>> >> comparing various file systems, hardware and software raid with a
>> >> little bit of volume management:
>> >>
>> >> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/HP_ProLiant_DL380_G5_Tuning_Guide
>
> Mark, very useful analysis.  I am curious why you didn't test
> 'data=writeback' on ext3;  'data=writeback' is the recommended mount
> method for that file system, though I see that is not mentioned in our
> official documentation.

I think the short answer is that I neglected to. :)  I didn't realized
'data=writeback' is the recommended journal mode.  We'll get a result
or two and see how it looks.

Mark

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