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Re:Redpanda – A Kafka-compatible streaming platform for miss... by tmd83 on Monday November 16, 2020 @06:12AM (#25110390)
It says XFS only for data directory in the setup guide. Curious to why that is and how does this work in MAC if that's the case.
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Re:Redpanda – A Kafka-compatible streaming platform for miss... by steeve on Monday November 16, 2020 @06:13AM (#25110393)
Redpanda is built on top of Seastar, as is ScyllaDB, so the reasons might be closely related: https://www.scylladb.com/2016/02/09/qualifying-filesystems/
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Re:Redpanda – A Kafka-compatible streaming platform for miss... by txdv on Monday November 16, 2020 @07:00AM (#25110647)
I was so happy about just running a single small binary for kafka, but then I saw this requirement that is harder to fulfill :/
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Re:Redpanda – A Kafka-compatible streaming platform for miss... by agallego on Monday November 16, 2020 @10:15AM (#25112653)
Why, you can run on a single core and 1G of ram.

We just give you optimal prod settings for saturating boxes.

See rpk container

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Re:Redpanda – A Kafka-compatible streaming platform for miss... by bithavoc on Monday November 16, 2020 @10:58AM (#25113200)
So I don’t need XFS to run a single-node Redpanda cluster?
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Re:Redpanda – A Kafka-compatible streaming platform for miss... by agallego on Monday November 16, 2020 @11:11AM (#25113340)
correct. xfs is just what we test all the time.
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Re:Redpanda – A Kafka-compatible streaming platform for miss... by agallego on Monday November 16, 2020 @10:16AM (#25112665)
Mostly for sparse file system support. We dispatch IO eagerly and out of order.
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Re:Redpanda – A Kafka-compatible streaming platform for miss... by txdv on Monday November 16, 2020 @07:21AM (#25110777)
How much of a hard requirement is this? Can I play around on non XFS?
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Re:Redpanda – A Kafka-compatible streaming platform for miss... by benpope on Monday November 16, 2020 @08:27AM (#25111342)
This is not a hard requirement, but XFS is highly recommended for production.
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