On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 12:02:40PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > It unfortunately also hurts other workloads. If we moved towards a saner
> > compression algorithm that'd perhaps not be an issue anymore...
>
> I agree that improving compression performance would be good but I don't
> see that as relevant to the question of what our defaults should be.
>
> imv, enabling page checksums is akin to having fsync enabled by default.
> Does it impact performance? Yes, surely quite a lot, but it's also the
> safe and sane choice when it comes to defaults.
Well, you know fsyncs are required to recover from an OS crash, which is
more likely than detecting data corruption.
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