Subject: Re: LFS for databases (was: LFS(?) ioflush/vnlock issues)
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Edgar_Fu=DF?= <Edgar.Fuss@bn2.maus.net>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/10/2007 14:13:43
On Mar 10, 2007, at 3:35 AM, Edgar Fu=DF wrote:
>
>> IMHO: LFS really isn't suitable for databases - every random
>> write operation can fragment the file on disk.
> Yes, I'm aware of this. But why would the database file being =20
> fragmented hurt performance? You're not going to read from it =20
> sequentially anyway, would you?
I will end up triggering a lot of garbage-collection activity by the =20
cleaner.
-- thorpej