Re: ZFS filesystem - supported ? - Mailing list pgsql-general

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In response to Re: ZFS filesystem - supported ?  (Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen@gmail.com>)
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On 10/26/2021 4:42 PM, Mladen Gogala wrote:
>
> On 10/26/21 05:35, Laura Smith wrote:
>> Curious, when it comes to "traditional" filesystems, why ext4 and not 
>> xfs ? AFAIK the legacy issues associated with xfs are long gone ?
>
> XFS is not being very actively developed any more. Ext4 is being 
> actively developed and it has some features to help with SSD space 
> allocation. Phoronix has some very useful benchmarks:
>
> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.14-File-Systems 
>
>
> Ext4 is much better than XFS with SQLite tests and almost equal with 
> MariaDB test. PostgreSQL is a relational database (let's forget the 
> object part for now) and the IO patterns will be similar to SQLite and 
> MariaDB. That benchmark is brand new, done on the kernel 5.14. Of 
> course, the only guarantee is doing your own benchmark, with your own 
> application.
>
RedHat and Oracle are mostly maintaining XFS updates, and I didn't see 
anything saying it's not mainained actively,
especially when they offering many solutions with XFS as default

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