Re: FreeBSD Softupdates??

From: Neil Conway <nconway(at)klamath(dot)dyndns(dot)org>
To: PostgreSQL General List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Softupdates??
Date: 2000-09-26 11:31:53
Message-ID: 20000926073153.A12348@klamath.dyndns.org
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On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 03:20:31AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> It can cause problems because softupdates makes meta data changes
> (in this case file creation/removal) asyncronously, the same actually
> happens with most other logging filesystems that don't support
> transactions.

I've been running FreeBSD 4.1 with soft updates on my development box
for a while now without any problems at all. Although it's not
production so there's not a lot of load on PgSQL.

I don't know if it hurts or hampers performance.

HTH,

Neil

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