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Author here - It's explained in the post but the primary driver is cost. 80%+ reduction in storage is massive when you're storing petabytes of data on ssds.
by jhk727 5y ago
Author here - It's explained in the post but the primary driver is cost. 80%+ reduction in storage is massive when you're storing petabytes of data on ssds.
- nhoughto 5y agohow important was being able to disable postgres full page writes under zfs? that was almost a throw-away line in the article but could be really important for some pg workloads i'd think? certainly got my attention
- jhk727 5y agoIt was a nontrivial improvement to write throughput at the time. I'd imagine it could have similar impact for other write-intensive workloads.