Disk space management issue

[hanson]

See Adam’s earlier post for some context. We pre-allocate large log files since 7.0, and they will fill up with user data if you use the DB significantly. So the issue is mostly for empty DBs. And disk is cheap these days.

Partition log file size

Just to add a bit of context there, those log files are pre-allocated on create database so we don’t need to allocate them while committing transactions. If you write data to the database they will fill up with user data. So this only impacts things for empty or mostly empty databases (disk is very cheap these days, so the default configuration errs on the side of performance by using up 1/2 GB of disk per partition for empty databases).