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Re: XFS, EXT3 or some other?




On 2006-06-21 Adam Skutt wrote:
> Christian Hammers wrote:
> 
> Normal servers have most of their databases
> > and web content in RAM anyway as RAM is cheap nowadays
> 2TB of RAM isn't cheap nor is the hardware to address it.
> 
> Hell, 32GB of RAM isn't cheap nor is the hardware to address it.
> 
> "Normal" for a database spans quite a range, so be careful before you generalize.

The original poster said something about a small webserver and "sql once
he learned it" :)
Besides for a DB with >4GB the filesystem performance is not very relevant
either as you usually don't create/delete/move files here but only work
inside (big) tablespace files and thus only affected by disk drive and bus
performance.

bye,

-christian-



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