Re: NetBSD on a database server - WAPBL, softdeps

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 04:00:17PM +0100, Hugo Silva wrote:
>
> and keeping in mind softdeps are scheduled to be removed in 6.0  
> (http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2008/12/14/msg000051.html), 
> what is the recommended configuration, filesystem wise, for a database  
> server running on NetBSD? Wouldn't running with "bare" UFS be too slow?

Why would you expect any benefit from either WAPBL or soft updates on
a database server?  Databases (or, at least, any database worth using)
manage their tablespaces independently, generally without creating or
deleting files in the filesystem -- or doing so very seldom, if at all.

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