On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 07:53:02PM +0200, Chris Travers wrote: > On the whole ZFS on spinning disks is going to have some performance... rough > corners..... And it is a lot harder to reason about a lot of things including > capacity and performance when you are doing copy on write on both the db and > FS > level, and have compression in the picture. And there are other areas of > complexity, such as how you handle partial page writes. > > On the whole I think for small dbs it might perform well enough. On large or > high velocity dbs I think you will have more problems than expected. > > Having worked with PostgreSQL on ZFS I wouldn't generally recommend it as a > general tool.
I know ZFS has a lot of features/options, and some of those can cause corruption, so if you modify ZFS options, you need to be sure they don't affect Postgres reliability. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com If only the physical world exists, free will is an illusion.
