Re: Linux ready for high-volume databases? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Vivek Khera
Subject Re: Linux ready for high-volume databases?
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Msg-id x7r837oyqo.fsf@yertle.int.kciLink.com
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In response to  ("Gregory S. Williamson" <gsw@globexplorer.com>)
Responses Re: Linux ready for high-volume databases?  (Dennis Gearon <gearond@fireserve.net>)
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>>>>> "DG" == Dennis Gearon <gearond@fireserve.net> writes:

DG> With the low cost of disks, it might be a good idea to just copy to
DG> disks, that one can put back in.

Your file system copies will be broken, since they only work if
PG is shut down.  For this very reason I don't even bother doing a
file system dump of the PG data partition.

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