Re: ext3 filesystem / linux 7.3

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Chris Sutton wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> > > I had previously understood that ext3 was a bad thing with PostgreSQL and I
> > > went way above and beyond to create it on an Ext2 filesystem (the only one
> > > on the server) and mount that.
>
> We recently started using Postgres on a new database server running RH 7.3
> and ext3.  Due to some kernel problems the machine would crash at random
> times.  Each time it crashed it came back up extremly easily with no data
> loss.  If we were on ext2 coming back up after a crash probably wouldn't
> have been quite as easy.
>
> We have since given up on RH 7.3 and gone with RH Enterprise ES.  Just an
> FIY for any of you out there thinking about moving to RH 7.3 or those that
> are having problems with 7.3 and ext3.

We're still running RH 7.2 due to issues we had with 7.3 as well.