Just Someone wrote:
2 10K SCSI disks in RAID1 for OS and WAL (with it's own partiton on ext3),
You'll want the WAL on its own spindle. IIRC a separate partition on a shared disc won't give you much benefit. The idea is to keep the disc's head from moving away for other tasks. Or so they say.
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