> Should I use gjournal on FreeBSD 7? Or just soft updates? > > Here is my opinion: I suspect that gjournal would be much slower than > soft updates. Also gjournal is relatively new code, not very well > tested. But gjournal is better when the system crashes. Although I have > heard that sometimes gjournal will crash the system itself. There are > more pros for soft updates I would pefer that. But please let me > know if I'm wrong.
If softupdates suites your needs why not just use that? :-) Is performance adequate with softupdates? I have a 103 GB db on FreeBSD 7.0 and softupdates and it has survived one unplanned stop when we had a power-outage lasting some hours. -- regards Claus When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner. Shakespeare -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
