On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 11:45 -0700, Steve Poe wrote: > I have a small business client that cannot afford high-end/high quality > RAID cards for their next server. That's a seperate argument/issue right > there for me, but what the client wants is what the client wants. > > Has anyone ran Postgres with software RAID or LVM on a production box? > What have been your experience?
Hi, We regularly run LVM on top of software raid for our PostgreSQL servers (and our other servers, for that matter). As far as I can see these systems have not had issues related to either software RAID or LVM - that's around 30 systems all up, maybe 8 running PostgreSQL, in production. The database servers are a variety of dual-Xeon (older) and dual-Opteron (newer) systems. The Xeons are all running Debian "Woody" with 2.4.xx kernels and the Opterons are all running "Sarge" with 2.6.x kernels. Regards, Andrew. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington WEB: http://catalyst.net.nz/ PHYS: Level 2, 150-154 Willis St DDI: +64(4)803-2201 MOB: +64(272)DEBIAN OFFICE: +64(4)499-2267 The secret of being a bore is to say everything -- Voltaire -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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