From: Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@elevated-dev.com>
To: Holger Jakobs <holger@jakobs.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: WAL & ZFS
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 16:58:08 -0600
Message-ID: <61E764EB-0038-4438-83D0-C50036FFB032@elevated-dev.com> (raw)
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> On Mar 31, 2022, at 4:47 PM, Holger Jakobs <holger@jakobs.com> wrote:
>
> The WAL is a journal itself and doesn't need another journal for safety. Therefore, a common recommendation is using ext2 (which has no journal) for the WAL partition.
>
> Is this correct?
I could see that being reasonable. In this case I don't control number and size of drives, and have a layout where it's really best in terms of utilization to put them all into the zpool. So my options are limited to ZFS options.
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