Russell Coker posted on Wed, 07 May 2014 15:36:15 +1000 as excerpted:
How could BTRFS and a database fight about data recovery?
BTRFS offers similar guarantees about data durability etc to other
journalled filesystems and only differs by having checksums so that
while a snapshot might have
How could BTRFS and a database fight about data recovery?
BTRFS offers similar guarantees about data durability etc to other journalled
filesystems and only differs by having checksums so that while a snapshot might
have half the data that was written by an app you at least know that the half
Thanks Duncan for the perfect explanations.
From this, I understand that I might get both better performance by setting my
akonadi dir to nocow, and still be able to take a snapshot from time to
time, which is exactly what I need.
Besides this, I'm still wondering about the changes in data
Besides this, I'm still wondering about the changes in data security that
turning a database to NoCow would bring, i.e. would the data still be well
protected in case of a system crash or power failure ?
I have precious data in there and wouldn't like to jeopardize its security for
a
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 01:15:24PM +0200, Swâmi Petaramesh wrote:
Hi,
In the quest for BTRFS and performance, and having received the advice to
chattr +C my akonadi DB directory to make it noCow, I would like to be sure
about what will happen when I take a snapshot of the concerned BTRFS
Swâmi Petaramesh posted on Wed, 09 Apr 2014 13:15:24 +0200 as excerpted:
In the quest for BTRFS and performance, and having received the advice
to chattr +C my akonadi DB directory to make it noCow, I would like to
be sure about what will happen when I take a snapshot of the concerned
BTRFS
