ZFSTuningGuide, MySQL on ZFS, zfs set sync=disabled question
Dmitriy Makarov
supportme at ukr.net
Sun Feb 12 19:13:11 UTC 2017
Hello,
reading https://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide I found the tweak
* zfs set sync=disabled tank/db
but no tip/note/info about this decision, or warning.
Googling about disabling sync with MySQL got results with strong and reasonable advice do *not* disabling sync for databases like
http://list.zfsonlinux.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2015-February/021132.html
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ZFS#Database ("never disable sync for a database!")
FreeBSD wiki recommended to sync=disable, is it related with some of FreeBSD ZFS extra-feature which is not present in other OS ZFS implementations?
Is it totally safe disabling sync for heavy loaded databases (for InnoDB-only MySQL), what side effects can occur (common and worst case) and why?
Thank You for detailed answer!
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