> > What's your opinion on running Zookeeper with file system journaling > disabled on an EXT4 file system? > We need every ounce of performance out of it, and I believe given the > Zookeeper implementation (operations are logged, majority quorum is > required for succeeding, checkpoints are swapped only after being complete) > I feel that EXT4 journaling is redundant. Disabling EXT4 journaling could > improve performance. We have 5 servers in a Zookeeper ensemble. Am I > missing something or this should be fine?
I would recommend against it. With ext4 journalling disabled, a server crash will likely lose data, unless you have all write caching disabled. If you have all write caching disabled, I'd expect to see worse performance for all applications. It's not much safer than running in a ramdisk. -Ivan
