Re: [GENERAL] server hardware recommendations (the archives aredead) - Mailing list pgsql-general

From The Hermit Hacker
Subject Re: [GENERAL] server hardware recommendations (the archives aredead)
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Msg-id Pine.BSF.4.21.9912151226560.651-100000@thelab.hub.org
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] server hardware recommendations (the archives aredead)  ("J. Roeleveld" <j.roeleveld@softhome.net>)
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On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, J. Roeleveld wrote:

> > What filesystem?  I know (thank god) very little about Linux, but
> > there have been comments here by some Linux folks (Thomas, wasn't it
> > you?) that indicated that ext2fs sucks for this?  Are you running with
> > fsync() on or off?
>
> What is the problem with ext2fs? Is it just performance? or is there a
> serious chance for me losing data?

That, I do not know...this is just something I recall from previous
discussions...

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org


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