I've been runing since softupdates became mainstream, on a relatively
heavily used production server ... I can't answer about performance
gains/loss, but from what I know of softupdates, it should be neglible for
a database system ... but, I haven't been 'shot in the foot' yet for any
of our database ...
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Neil Conway wrote:
> 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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