Re: Re: XFS File systems and PostgreSQL

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: bruc@acm.org
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, chriskl@familyhealth.com.au
Date: 2001-05-07T18:38:50Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> The performance penalty for using fsync is modest, and therefore,
> I do not believe that we should discourage people from using XFS
> because it is a journaling file system. The note advising against
> installing Postgres on XFS should be removed from the installation
> guide. Instead, we need to explore how to use XFS's features to improve

I don't believe any mention has been made in the docs yet.  Seems we are
still exploring this.

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