are journal files required on slave?

Klaus Darilion klaus.mailinglists at pernau.at
Wed Mar 14 12:19:48 UTC 2018



Am 14.03.2018 um 13:04 schrieb Tony Finch:
> Klaus Darilion <klaus.mailinglists at pernau.at> wrote:
>>
>> But on a server with slave-zone only (fetched by ixfr) - do I need a
>> journal at all? How can I disable it - by setting the max-size to 0?
> 
> The journal reduces the cost of re-writing zone files: basically, the IXFR
> just gets appended to the journal, which is relatively cheap. For BIND
> 9.11 and earlier, it's probably worth setting it to some modest non-zero
> size (64KB? 1MB?). If you have any large frequently-updated zones they
> might benefit from a bigger journal to reduce zone file re-writes. In BIND
> 9.12 the max-journal-size is automatically set based on the zone size, so
> you should be able to remove any max-journal-size settings from your
> config. (I contributed this feature because I got fed up with worrying
> about them.)

Thanks for the detailed answer. So I will use a few MBytes. But would it
be possible to set max-journal-size=0?

thanks
Klaus


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