Re: What filesystem?

On Saturday 22 Feb 2003 11:41 pm, you wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 00:25, Joshua Drake wrote:
> >  JFS and XFS are the most thoroughly tested. EXT2 is the slowest but
> > very very stable. ReiserFS is good, EXT3 is good as long as you are
> > running 2.4.20 + the source EXT3 patches.
>
> I'd be quite surprised if ext2 was any slower than ext3. Also, since
> most PostgreSQL disk I/O involves large files, I wouldn't think ReiserFS
> would outperform ext2 either.

It does. By quite a large margin. I don't remember exactly but it can be
between 30%-60% on single IDE drive.

Apparently tree indexes in reiser helps it a lot.

 Shridhar