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From: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Delaylog
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:03:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C8FD50C.1030905@hardwarefreak.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201009142106.24448.arekm@maven.pl>

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz put forth on 9/14/2010 2:06 PM:
> On Tuesday 14 of September 2010, Fabricio Archanjo wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>>    I just trying delaylog in my server that has a mysql database. When
>> i monted my /var/lib/mysql with delaylog option, it showed me:
>> "Enabling EXPERIMENTAL delayed logging feature - use at your own
>> risk". Ok, i know it's experimental, but what kind of problem could i
>> have using delaylog?
> 
> ... and what problems in case of system hang or power loss when compared to 
> nodelaylog mode?

This was covered in prior posts IIRC.  Delaylog holds more write
transactions in memory in an effort to decrease the amount of disk I/O
and optimize write patterns.  The more blocks waiting in the in memory
log, the more data will be lost due to power outage, controller/disk
failure, storage HBA/network failure (iSCSI/FC), kernel panics, etc.

Same failure modes as before, but with potentially greater loss of
data--unless there is an undiscovered bug that can wreck the entire
filesystem.  ;)  Which I believe is the reason for the "experimental"
boilerplate.

-- 
Stan

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-14 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2010-09-14 19:06 ` Delaylog Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2010-09-14 19:20   ` Delaylog Fabricio Archanjo
2010-09-14 20:03   ` Stan Hoeppner [this message]
2010-09-14 21:32     ` Delaylog Fabricio Archanjo
2010-09-14 23:23   ` Delaylog Christoph Hellwig

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