Re: BTRFS and databases

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> 2 авг. 2018 г., в 10:02, Qu Wenruo <quwenruo.btrfs@xxxxxxx> написал(а):
> 
> 
> 
>> On 2018年08月01日 11:45, MegaBrutal wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I know it's a decade-old question, but I'd like to hear your thoughts
>> of today. By now, I became a heavy BTRFS user. Almost everywhere I use
>> BTRFS, except in situations when it is obvious there is no benefit
>> (e.g. /var/log, /boot). At home, all my desktop, laptop and server
>> computers are mainly running on BTRFS with only a few file systems on
>> ext4. I even installed BTRFS in corporate productive systems (in those
>> cases, the systems were mainly on ext4; but there were some specific
>> file systems those exploited BTRFS features).
>> 
>> But there is still one question that I can't get over: if you store a
>> database (e.g. MySQL), would you prefer having a BTRFS volume mounted
>> with nodatacow, or would you just simply use ext4?
>> 
>> I know that with nodatacow, I take away most of the benefits of BTRFS
>> (those are actually hurting database performance – the exact CoW
>> nature that is elsewhere a blessing, with databases it's a drawback).
>> But are there any advantages of still sticking to BTRFS for a database
>> albeit CoW is disabled, or should I just return to the old and
>> reliable ext4 for those applications?
> 
> Since I'm not a expert in database, so I can totally be wrong, but what
> about completely disabling database write-ahead-log (WAL), and let
> btrfs' data CoW to handle data consistency completely?
> 

This would make content of database after crash completely unpredictable, thus making it impossible to reliably roll back transaction.


> If there is some concern about the commit interval, it could be tuned by
> commit= mount option.
> 
> It may either lead to super unexpected fast behavior, or some unknown
> disaster. (And for latter, we at least could get some interesting
> feedback and bugs to fix)
> 
> Thanks,
> Qu
> 
>> 
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> MegaBrutal
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