Grega, > Furthermore, this filesystem would be a blazing one stop solution for > all replication issues PostgreSQL currently suffers from, as its main > design goal was to present "a consistent file system image across the > servers in a cluster".
Does it work, though? Without Oracle admin tools? > Now, if both goals can be achieved in one go, hell, I'm willing to try > it out myself in an attempt to extract off of it, some performance > indicators that could be compared to other database performance tests > sent to both this and the PERFORM mailing list. Hey, any test you wanna run is fine with us. I'm pretty sure that OCFS belongs to Oracle, though, patent & copyright, so we couldn't actually use it in practice. If your intention in this test is to show the superiority of raw devices, let me give you a reality check: barring some major corporate backing getting involved, we can't possibly implement our own PG-FS for database support. We already have a TODO list which is far too long for our developer pool, and implementing a custom FS either takes a large team (OCFS) or several years of development (Reiser). Now, if you know somebody who might pay for one, then great .... -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
