On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Clemens Eisserer <linuxhi...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi, > > > If you really want ZFS, I would highly recommend looking into > > FreeBSD (Postgresql works great on it) or if you want to stick with > Linux, > > look into mdadm with LVM or some other filesystem solution. > > If you want to use ZFS because of its features, take a look at btrfs. > It provides a lot of the stuff supported by ZFS with usually better > performance on linux - and since the last few kernel revisions it is > finally in a state where I would dare to use it in production. > > If you need highest performance, don't use a copy-on-write filesystem > like ZFS or btrfs, stick to ext4 or XFS ;) > > Regards, Clemens > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general > Do you have any personal experience with BTRFS for a couple of weeks in production or any official statement/case study ? On the FAQ, it says it is still experimental (https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ), though it may just be outdated. There is also these two links that would make me very cautious (as I am with ZFS on Linux, mind you): http://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2013/04/the-btrfs-backup-experiment/ http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1221177 Sébastien
