March 2019
Intermediate to advanced
394 pages
11h 4m
English
As explained in the Snapshots and checkpoints section, journaling is the cornerstone of WiredTiger crash recovery protection.
WiredTiger compresses the journal using the snappy compression algorithm. We can use the following setting to set a different compression algorithm:
storage.wiredTiger.engineConfig.journalCompressor
We can also disable journaling for WiredTiger by setting the following to false:
storage.journal.enabled
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