"Henning P. Schmiedehausen" wrote:
>
> thebs@theseus.com (Bryan -TheBS- Smith) writes:
>
> >Sysadmin cutting in. I'm not responding to give either praise nor
>
> Same here...
>
> [...]
>
> >I'm building a new fileserver in July. It will house over half a
> >terabyte of data, which will, in all likelihood, be augmented to
> >over a Terabyte within a year. This fileserver will be responsible
> >for housing the files for a 32-bit SoC (system-on-a-chip) design,
> >with Solaris, Linux and NT clients. We throw data around like it
> >is a rag doll, checking in files as large as 1GB into CVS.
>
> Sorry to burst Hans' bubble here, but IMHO ReiserFS ist not ready for
> prime time. But then again, I was using the 3.5.18 on a SCSI RAID5
> running off an AIC7XXX controller under 2.2.15pre17. I used a
> Postgresql 6.5.3 database on this ReiserFS partition. Baaad idea. The
> database started losing tables, corrupted tables, the same query two
> times in a row returned different numbers of results and I can not
> count how often the front- and backend died with "corrupted memory".
> I'm back on ext2, the box is now rock-solid. This is not my idea of an
> industrial strength file system. I like the performance of ReiserFS in
> all benchmarks. I love it with my 240 Gig Typhoon driven Newsserver. But
> at least the Postgresql usage pattern corrupted the filesystem.
>
> Sorry
> Henning
>
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Does postgresql on linux depend on O_SYNC, which we don't support?
Perhaps we need to return a failure if O_SYNC is used.
Hans
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