Re: Best suiting OS

From: Karl Denninger <karl(at)denninger(dot)net>
To: Axel Rau <Axel(dot)Rau(at)Chaos1(dot)DE>
Cc: PostgreSQL Performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Best suiting OS
Date: 2009-10-05 21:44:18
Message-ID: 4ACA68B2.8050201@denninger.net
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Axel Rau wrote:
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> Am 05.10.2009 um 20:06 schrieb Karl Denninger:
>
>> gjournal, no. ZFS has potential stability issues - I am VERY interested
>> in it when those are resolved. It looks good on a test platform but I'm
>> unwilling to run it in production; there are both reports of crashes and
>> I have been able to crash it under some (admittedly rather extreme)
>> synthetic loads.
> How do you prevent from long running fsck with TB size ufs partitions?
> I had some hope for zfs13 and fbsd 8.0.
>
> Axel
Turn on softupdates. Fsck is deferred and the system comes up almost
instantly even with TB-sized partitions; the fsck then cleans up the cruft.

-- Karl

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