On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> wrote: >> We've had a few EnterpriseDB customers who have had fantastically >> painful experiences with PostgreSQL + ZFS. Supposedly, aligning the >> ZFS block size to the PostgreSQL block size is supposed to make these >> problems go away, but in my experience it does not have that effect. >> So I think telling people who want checksums "go use ZFS" is a lot >> like telling them "oh, I see you have a hangnail, we recommend that >> you solve that by cutting your arm off with a rusty saw". > > Wow, what platform are you using ZFS on? > > (we have a half-dozen clients on ZFS ...)
Not us, customers. But as to platform, I have yet to run across anyone running ZFS on anything but Solaris. I'd be interested to hear your experiences. Mine rhyme with "sun a play dreaming". -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
