2013/5/22 Rafał Radecki <radecki.ra...@gmail.com> > Hi All. > > I use mysql/perconna/maria on my production CentOS 6 Linux servers. I > currently try to choose the default filesystem for partitions with mysql > data. Some time ago (previous dba) reiserfs was the choice but now it is > not in the kernel and the main author is in prison. > > From what I've read xfs and ext4 are valid choices and performance > benchmarks over the web show that they are "comparable" (no clear winner). > I've also read that with every new kernel there can be changes in > performance in every filesystem ( for example > > http://gtowey.blogspot.com/2013/02/serious-xfs-performance-regression-in.html > ). > > From your experiences: which filesystem to choose for a mysql db? Is ext4 > or xfs better? Or is it more a case of proper filesystem tuning to my > workload? Any articles worth reading which you can recommend? > > Hi Rafal,
I guess it really depends on your workload, your HW, kernel etc. >From my experience, having XFS with lazy-count=1 and kernels 2.6.31.X gives better performance in our HW RAID 10 + BBU servers. We do have this configuration in around 200 DBs without any stability issue. I still have pending to test ext4/xfs with 3.2.X kernels... Manuel.
