Re: XFS, EXT3 or some other?

[Matthew Robinson <matt@fone-me.com>]

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.
>
> Adam
Plus, if there's a hardware failure (motherboard goes?), youve lost 
everything thats cached in ram.