Re: Best Linux Distribution

On Thursday 20 January 2005 09:20 pm, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> mstory@uchicago.edu wrote:
> >Does it have to be linux?  I've never had as much success with
> > PostGresql on linux as i have on FreeBSD 5.3
>
> For XFS? I don't think you are going to have with FreeBSD and XFS.
> If IIRC (some freebsd person please chime in) that is one thing
> that Linux has over FreeBSD which is its filesystems support.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake

I don't think he was referring to the filesystem issue as much as the
original question as to which Linux distribution would be best.

I was running PostgreSQL on Linux until just before the 2.4 kernel was
released.  I tried it on FreeBSD because my uncompressed backup files
were larger than 2GB.  I've been running PostgreSQL on FreeBSD 4* ever
since; and I could not be more pleased.  Although the 2.4 kernel
increased the maximum file size, I never looked back.  (Actually, I
have been looking back at Linux -- but only at the request of the IS
Dept.  They have a few staff that run Linux at home; but aren't
comfortable with FreeBSD.  At the point that they support Linux
officially, they would like me to change operating systems.)

Andrew Gould