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Subject: Re: WAL & ZFS
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> On Mar 31, 2022, at 4:47 PM, Holger Jakobs <holger@jakobs.com> wrote:
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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.=