Re: CREATE DATABASE with filesystem cloning

On Sat, Oct 7, 2023, at 1:51 AM, Thomas Munro wrote:

> I tested on bleeding edge FreeBSD/ZFS, where you need to set sysctl
> vfs.zfs.bclone_enabled=1 to enable the optimisation, as it's still a
> very new feature that is still being rolled out.  The system call
> succeeds either way, but that controls whether the new database
> initially shares blocks on disk, or get new copies.  I also tested on
> a Mac.  In both cases I could clone large databases in a fraction of a
> second.

WOOT! Looking forward to this. It would greatly improve times needed
when deploying test environments.

Thank you.

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  Dan Langille
  dan@langille.org