Re: Best Linux Distribution

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:19:33 -0800, Bricklen Anderson
<BAnderson@presinet.com> wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake 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.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Joshua D. Drake
>
> Out of curiousity, which fs would you recommend for a ~terabyte oltp db?

XFS without a doubt.  XFS has excellent large file (and filesystem) support.


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