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[Arjen Lentz <arjen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mark

On 23/12/2010, at 6:19 AM, MARK CALLAGHAN wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Arjen Lentz <arjen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
> wrote:
> > Hi Mark, all
> >
> > On 21/12/2010, at 12:51 PM, MARK CALLAGHAN wrote:
> > > It would be nice if pre-allocated binlog files were possible, but
> > > performance results from ext-3 overstates the benefit to be had. If
> > > you care about performance with the binlog enabled then don't use
> > > ext-3:
> > > http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=194501560932
> >
> > Not surprising, however in many environments deployments get stuck  
> > with
> > ext3, so I do think there's benefit for the real world.
>
> Arjen,
>
> The question isn't whether this has a real world benefit. Lots of
> changes do. The question is whether this is worth the effort to fix
> given the many other problems that could be fixed and who is going to
> fund that fix. This is a big change to replication internals.


right well that's good to know - about it being a big change... the  
patch in any case looked overly complicated in terms of approach, so I  
figured perhaps a simpler way would be ok.
Clients were interested so funding might be ok. But indeed, lots of  
things could be even more useful.
we'll see.

Cheers,
Arjen.
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