On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com> wrote:
>
> On 16-Mar-08, at 3:04 PM, Craig James wrote:
> > Just out of curiosity: Last time I did research, the word seemed to
> > be that xfs was better than ext2 or ext3. Is that not true? Why
> > use ext2/3 at all if xfs is faster for Postgres?
> >
> I would like to see the evidence of this. I doubt that it would be
> faster than ext2. There is no journaling on ext2.
Well, if you're dropping a large table ext2/3 has that very long wait
thing that can happen. Don't know how much battery backed cache would
help.
