Re: Filesystem benchmarking for pg 8.3.3 server - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Andrej Ricnik-Bay
Subject Re: Filesystem benchmarking for pg 8.3.3 server
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In response to Re: Filesystem benchmarking for pg 8.3.3 server  (Henrik <henke@mac.se>)
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On 09/08/2008, Henrik <henke@mac.se> wrote:
> But random writes should be faster on a RAID10 as it doesn't need to
> calculate parity. That is why people suggest RAID 10 for datases, correct?

If it had 10 spindles as opposed to 4 ... with 4 drives the "split" is (because
you're striping and mirroring) like writing to two.


Cheers,
Andrej

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