We have no such plans. Neo4j talk to storage in terms of pages, which is sensible even on SSDs and copy-on-write file systems. We do want to reduce the space puff-up on crashes, though, but I don't know what priority that has.
-- Chris Vest System Engineer, Neo Technology [ skype: mr.chrisvest, twitter: chvest ] On 15 Sep 2014, at 19:01, Davide <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Chris Vest > <[email protected]> wrote: >> The database grabs space for new records in chunks, and then truncates unused >> space off the end of the files on clean shut downs. > > Hi Chris, > > I know preallocating files is useful to improve sequential read speed > with traditional hard disk and file systems. > But I guess file preallocation should be disabled with SSD disks or > with copy-on-write file systems like Btrfs, ZFS... do you plan to > disable it in the future? > > -- > Davide Savazzi > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Neo4j" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Neo4j" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
