[CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.com
Tue Jul 5 16:59:38 UTC 2011
On 07/05/11 7:10 AM, Charles Polisher wrote:
> In general and with some simplifiying assumptions, a database
> consists of statically pre-allocated files. The process of extending
> the files happens at birth. The relative speed over the lifetime
> of the database is dominated by raw I/O, not by extending the files.
thats not even remotely true of many databases. PostgreSQL, for
example, the files are extended as they are updated/inserted, as are the
WAL files.
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