Re: file system and raid performance

Mark Wong wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:04 PM,  <david@lang.hm> wrote:
> > On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Mark Wong wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> We've thrown together some results from simple i/o tests on Linux
> >> comparing various file systems, hardware and software raid with a
> >> little bit of volume management:
> >>
> >> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/HP_ProLiant_DL380_G5_Tuning_Guide

Mark, very useful analysis.  I am curious why you didn't test
'data=writeback' on ext3;  'data=writeback' is the recommended mount
method for that file system, though I see that is not mentioned in our
official documentation.

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