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by erik_seaberg 803 days ago
The way to take advantage of the bandwidth of multiple storage devices is to distribute concurrent writes across them, rather than forcing everything to commit sequentially using contended locks or rollbacks.
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The DB (or any application) should not have any need to know what devices are underneath its mount point. If you’re striping across disks, that’s a device (or filesystem, for ZFS) level implementation.