Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:36:55 -0500 (EST) | From | Aaron Sethman <> | Subject | Re: Ext2 & Performances |
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You might want to take a look at using reiserfs on the 130GB partition, as its is journalled and doesn't need to be fsck'ed. Take a look a http://devlinux.com/namesys/
Aaron
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Roberto Fichera wrote:
> At 19.00 21/11/00 +0100, Jakob Østergaard wrote: > > >On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 05:58:58PM +0100, Roberto Fichera wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I need to know if there are some differences, in performances, between > > > a ext2 filesystem in a 10Gb partition and another that reside in a 130Gb, > > > each one have 4Kb block size. > > > > > > I'm configuring a Compaq ML350 2x800PIII, 1Gb RAM, 5x36Gb UWS3 RAID 5 > > > with Smart Array 4300, as database SQL server. So I need to chose > > between a > > > single > > > partition of 130Gb or multiple small partitions, depending by the > > performances. > > > >Does your database *require* a filesystem ? At least Oracle can do without, > >but I don't know about others... > > Currently I'm using PostgreSQL. > > >Usually, if you want performance, you let the database use the block device > >without putting a filesystem on top of it. > > Yes! I know! Oracle should be a good choice for that. > > >You probably don't want a 130G ext2 if there is any chance that a power > >surge etc. can cause the machine to reboot without umount()'ing the > >filesystem. A fsck on a 130G filesystem is going to take a *long* time. > > Yes! I know :-((!!! I'm looking for other fs that are journaled like ext3 > or raiserfs > but I don't know which are a good choice for stability and performances. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > >
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