On: ZFS Is the Best Filesystem For Now

[anarazel]

> Atomic snapshots like ZFS's are always consistent for Postgres.

As long as you make sure to only use one filesystem, i.e. you don't place pg_xlog or some tablespaces on a different filesystem. You can get very weird corruption in such cases :)

[olavgg → anarazel]

With ZFS you can also do atomic snapshots of multiple filesystems. https://serverfault.com/questions/608223/is-zfs-snapshot-r-o...