Horton

Re: can disks be read only?

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>

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From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: mikeo <mikeo@spectrumtelecorp.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-07-26T04:52:26Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
> >   we wish to have a database that is history so we
> > want to make the disks read only after loading.
> > would this cause any problems with POSTGRES?

You mentioned Linux: try using one of the logging file systems like
reiserfs, which will reduce or eliminate the time now spent in fsck
during boot.

                    - Thomas