Re: [PERFORM] [ADMIN] Raw devices vs. Filesystems

2004-04-09 Thread Josh Berkus
Grega, Well, as I said, that's why I was asking - I'm willing to give it a go if nobody can prove me wrong. :) Why not? If you have time? I thought you knew - OCFS, OCFS-Tools and OCFSv2 have not only been open- source for quite a while now - they're released under the GPL. Keen!

Re: [PERFORM] [ADMIN] Raw devices vs. Filesystems

2004-04-07 Thread Grega Bremec
...and on Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 01:26:02AM -0400, Tom Lane used the keyboard: After that, we get to implement our own filesystem-equivalent management of disk space allocation, disk I/O scheduling, etc. Are we really smarter than all those kernel hackers doing this for a living? I doubt it.

Re: [PERFORM] [ADMIN] Raw devices vs. Filesystems

2004-04-07 Thread Josh Berkus
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?

Re: [PERFORM] [ADMIN] Raw devices vs. Filesystems

2004-04-07 Thread Steve Atkins
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 09:09:16AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: 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