Re: Enabling Checksums
Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2013-03-06T23:15:03Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 03/06/2013 03:06 PM, Robert Haas wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: >>> We've had a few EnterpriseDB customers who have had fantastically >>> painful experiences with PostgreSQL + ZFS. Supposedly, aligning the >>> ZFS block size to the PostgreSQL block size is supposed to make these >>> problems go away, but in my experience it does not have that effect. >>> So I think telling people who want checksums "go use ZFS" is a lot >>> like telling them "oh, I see you have a hangnail, we recommend that >>> you solve that by cutting your arm off with a rusty saw". >> >> Wow, what platform are you using ZFS on? >> >> (we have a half-dozen clients on ZFS ...) > > Not us, customers. But as to platform, I have yet to run across > anyone running ZFS on anything but Solaris. I'd be interested to hear > your experiences. Mine rhyme with "sun a play dreaming". I would guess he meant on X86_64 or Sparc. JD > -- Command Prompt, Inc. - http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Support, Training, Professional Services and Development High Availability, Oracle Conversion, Postgres-XC @cmdpromptinc - 509-416-6579