Re: WAL & ZFS - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Scott Ribe
Subject Re: WAL & ZFS
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Msg-id 61E764EB-0038-4438-83D0-C50036FFB032@elevated-dev.com
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In response to Re: WAL & ZFS  (Holger Jakobs <holger@jakobs.com>)
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> On Mar 31, 2022, at 4:47 PM, Holger Jakobs <holger@jakobs.com> wrote:
>
> The WAL is a journal itself and doesn't need another journal for safety. Therefore, a common recommendation is using
ext2(which has no journal) for the WAL partition. 
>
> Is this correct?

I could see that being reasonable. In this case I don't control number and size of drives, and have a layout where it's
reallybest in terms of utilization to put them all into the zpool. So my options are limited to ZFS options. 


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