On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:17 AM, Jesper Krogh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Scott Marlowe wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 3:09 PM, justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I chose to use ext3 on these partition > > > > You should really consider another file system. ext3 has two flaws > > that mean I can't really use it properly. A 2TB file system size > > limit (at least on the servers I've tested) and it locks the whole > > file system while deleting large files, which can take several seconds > > and stop ANYTHING from happening during that time. This means that > > dropping or truncating large tables in the middle of the day could > > halt your database for seconds at a time. This one misfeature means > > that ext2/3 are unsuitable for running under a database. > > I cannot acknowledge or deny the last one, but the first one is not > true. I have several volumes in the 4TB+ range on ext3 performing nicely. > > I can test the "large file stuff", but how large? .. several GB is not a > problem here.
Is this on a 64 bit or 32 bit machine? We had the problem with a 32 bit linux box (not sure what flavor) just a few months ago. I would not create a filesystem on a partition of 2+TB -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
