If 3 of the 5 servers were to shutdown and the files on those servers were to 
become corrupted, you would assuredly have data loss.

Do you have your disks behind a raid controller with non-volatile cache (aka 
write back cache)?

Brian


> On Oct 21, 2015, at 9:49 AM, Adrian Hamza <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 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?
> Thank you,
> Adrian
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