Re: recommending reiserfs?

[neil <neilcuk@xxxxxxx>]

Florin Andrei wrote:

On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 21:16, Bill Schoolcraft wrote:

  

In my first experience working with MySQL, we were recommended
to format that particular partition to Reiser for performance
reasons.  That's just my initial experience and I had to setup
four servers so far, will keep you posted...
    

_In_theory_, for that type of workload (reading/writing fast to/from
large files), probably XFS is best.

But that's just the theory; you have to run benchmarks in your
particular case and see what happens.

  

I haven't used ReiserFS in production. In practice it's supposed to do intelligent block management to maximise the capacity of your storage. For example - if you specify blocks of 4k and your files end up being 1k or smaller the ReiserFS system will still used the remaining space within each block - very cool indeed! whereas in the extended filesystem you would potentially loose 3/4 of your storage capacity if your file ended up being 1k or less. But read the links that have been posted and make sure you test/test/test :-)

neil.