Re: Poor performance of btrfs with Postgresql - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Henry C.
Subject Re: Poor performance of btrfs with Postgresql
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Msg-id d06ed907fa47ee31bb11ffe83805952c.squirrel@support.metroweb.co.za
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In response to Poor performance of btrfs with Postgresql  (Toby Corkindale <toby.corkindale@strategicdata.com.au>)
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Re: Poor performance of btrfs with Postgresql
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> I've done some testing of PostgreSQL on different filesystems, and with
> different filesystem mount options.

Since Pg is already "journalling", why bother duplicating (and pay the
performance penalty, whatever that penalty may be) the effort for no real
gain (except maybe a redundant sense of safety)?  ie, use a
non-journalling battle-tested fs like ext2.

Regards
Henry

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