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Subject: WAL & ZFS
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I've read all the info I could find re running PG on ZFS: turn off full =
page writes, turn on lz4, tweak recordsize so as to take advantage of =
compression, etc. One thing I haven't seen is whether a separate volume =
for WAL would benefit from a larger recordsize. Or any other tweaks???

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