> I am experimenting with a few OS's for my new hardware. I plan to have a > software RAID5 device for my pgsql data directory. > > I have been experimenting with FreeBSD and with Linux, does anyone have any > thoughts on whether vinum RAID devices are better than Linux software RAID? > Or vice versa... Or no difference at all? Any gotchas I should bear in mind?
I use Postgres w/Vinum setup to mirror 2 9gig SCSI Cheetahs and I have no complaints. I bang on the db quite a bit (moderately busy site and tons of data analysis) and performance is great. Ultimately I am going to slap a hardware RAID card in there (need the immediate failover) but right now software wise performance is great. I'd probably only recommend doing mirroring in software though, RAID-5 is going to eat up alot more CPU and disk writes. -- "Don't 'kill -9' the SYSVMSG" [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
