Re: Re: New Linux xfs/reiser file systems

> Well, arguably if you're setting up a database server then a reasonable DBA
> should think about such things...

Yes, but people have trouble installing PostgreSQL.  I can't imagine
walking them through a newfs.


> 
> (My 2c)
> 
> Chris
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]
> Sent: Friday, 4 May 2001 9:42 AM
> To: Christopher Kings-Lynne
> Cc: mlw; Hackers List
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: New Linux xfs/reiser file systems
> 
> 
> > Just put a note in the installation docs that the place where the database
> > is initialised to should be on a non-Reiser, non-XFS mount...
> 
> Sure, we can do that now.  What do we do when these are the default file
> systems for Linux?  We can tell them to create other types of file
> systems, but that is a pretty big hurdle.  I wonder if it would be
> easier to get reiser/xfs to make some modifications.
> 
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