From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
Cc: 29675@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29675: databases should be created with chattr +C
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 15:40:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171213154003.29024f01@scratchpost.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171212114608.GB1873@macbook41>
Hi Efraim,
On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 13:46:08 +0200
Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> wrote:
> We support running GuixSD on top of btrfs, and the prevailing wisdom is
> to mark databases (sqlite, postgresql, etc.) as 'chattr +C', that is, as
> not copy-on-write. It is honored under ext4, but it shouldn't cause any
> changes.
It sounds reasonable to do that - but I don't think that relational databases are managed by the Guix store. Rather they are in /var or in the home directory. Long story short, it would make sense for Postgres and Sqlite upstream to do the chattr +C, if they don't already do it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-13 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-12 11:46 bug#29675: databases should be created with chattr +C Efraim Flashner
2017-12-13 8:50 ` Rutger Helling
2017-12-13 14:40 ` Danny Milosavljevic [this message]
2017-12-20 13:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-20 13:31 ` Efraim Flashner
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