Oy. I've worked on safety-critical systems with hard real-time constraints
too. For the most part they didn't *have* file systems or the file systems
were basically read-only in production. Sticking a relational database any
closer than the SCADA monitoring node would not be a thing that happens,
On Apr 11, 2019, at 1:27 PM, James K. Lowden wrote:
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> On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 15:14:59 -0600
> Warren Young wrote:
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>> If you?re going to buy some more storage, you should put ZFS on it
>> then, too. :)
>
> That's interesting advice for a DBMS mailing list.
>
> ZFS has built-in
On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 11:35:04 +1000
John McMahon wrote:
> > SELECT x * y & ~1 AS even_numbered_area FROM squares;
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> Suggestion: "Don't Do That", use database purely as a storage medium.
You yourself don't really believe that!
A disk is a storage medium. A file is an undifferntiated stream
On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 15:14:59 -0600
Warren Young wrote:
> On Apr 10, 2019, at 2:12 PM, Keith Medcalf
> wrote:
> >
> > It is far cheaper and much more reliable to just buy some file
> > storage space.
>
> If you?re going to buy some more storage, you should put ZFS on it
> then, too. :)
On 12 Apr 2019, at 1:45am, Warren Young wrote:
> ZFS
I've used ZFS. ZFS is a great file system for some purposes. Fully-fledged
databases isn't one of them.
Someone already mentioned the problem of a transaction-based DBMS running on a
transaction-based filesystem. I can add the problems
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