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		mastax on July 26, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bcachefs, an Introduction/Exploration IIRC bcachefs is going to add a non-COW mode which should be good for databases.

curt15 on July 26, 2024 [–]

NoCOW on btrfs is a kludge because it disables the core features of btrfs and is dangerous to use with raid1. Since, ZFS doesn't even have a nocow mode, surely there are other ways of dealing with databases?

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