Re: Best Linux Distribution

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:03:31 -0800, Joshua D. Drake
<jd@www.commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
>
> >No difference whatsoever from PostgreSQL's point of view. Use whichever
> >distribution is easiest for you to administer. After all, there's no
> >point installing Postgres on a machine you don't know how to maintain
> >or tune :)
> >
> >
> Actually there is a difference from PostgreSQL's point of view :)
> Namely in filesystems. The default filesystem on whitebox, RHEL and
> Fedora is EXT3 which really isn't that great.

On whitebox & RHEL ext3 is really the only choice.  However, FC3
provides all the other major filesystems as choices (XFS, reiser).

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