On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:29 AM, Chris Travers <chris.trav...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:14 PM, Sébastien Lorion < > s...@thestrangefactory.com> wrote: > >> 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 it may just be outdated.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 >> >> We're looking at it for LedgerSMB hosting (with PostgreSQL, we are > currently using XFS). So far we are liking what we are seeing. We > wouldn't be using it for PostgreSQL backups, but the general sense is that > the developers are very, very conservative about making guarantees of > stability and so far we haven't seen any indication that "experimental" > means anything other than "developers nervous about calling it stable." > > This being said, we aren't very far into our evaluation yet and our view > could change. > > -- > Best Wishes, > Chris Travers > > Efficito: Hosted Accounting and ERP. Robust and Flexible. No vendor > lock-in. > http://www.efficito.com/learn_more.shtml > Thank you Chris, that incites me at looking at btrfs more closely. Sébastien
