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bug#29675: databases should be created with chattr +C
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Danny Milosavljevic |
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bug#29675: databases should be created with chattr +C |
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Wed, 13 Dec 2017 15:40:03 +0100 |
Hi Efraim,
On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 13:46:08 +0200
Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> 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.