On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> And there's even more radical changes in btrfs, since it wasn't starting
> with a fairly robust filesystem as a base. And putting my tin foil hat on,
> I don't feel real happy about assuming *the* solution for this issue in
> PostgreSQL is the possibility of a filesystem coming one day when that work
> is being steered by engineers who work at Oracle.
Agreed.
I do agree with Heikki that it really ought to be the OS problem, but
then we thought that about dtrace and we're still waiting for that or
similar to be usable on all platforms (+/- 4 years).
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