[OSM-dev] Planet file space requirements

[Stefan de Konink]

On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Linden Varley wrote:

> Is there potential to be able to do differential updates on a non-slim imported db?
>
> Reason I ask is I have plenty of memory, but little DB space (SSD) and I would like to do weekly diffs, import with osm2pgsql and get a tile expiry list to re-cache changed tiles.
>
> If not, I'll import with slim on a larger disk and do a filesystem copy across to the SSD.

I rather suggest to ditch the SSD, the chances that it will be killed (in
performance) are rather high with non-static datasets as OSM.


Stefan