Re: ext3 filesystem / linux 7.3

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 09:39:17 -0800 (PST) in message <20030401173917.19476.qmail@web21101.mail.yahoo.com>, Shankar K
<shan0075@yahoo.com>wrote: 
> hi jeff,
>
> go to
> http://www.ca.postgresql.org/docs/momjian/hw_performance/
> under 'filesystems' slide.
>

I suspect that is what he's seen.

From my experience, ext3 is only a percent or two slower than ext2 under pg_bench. It saves an amazing amount of time
onstartup after a failure by not having to fsck to confirm that the filesystem is in a consistent state.  

I believe that ext3 is a metadata journaling system, and not a data journaling system. This would indicate that the PG
transactioningis complimentary to the filesystem journaling, not duplication.  

eric