But still the greatest question is what FS to put on ?
I heard Reiesref can handle small files very quickly.
Switching from ext3 to reiserfs for our name servers reduced the time taken to load 110,000 zones from 45 minutes to 5 minutes.
However for a database, I don't think you can really factor this type of stuff into the equation. The performance benefits you get from different filesystem types are going to be small compared to the modifications that you can make to your database structure, queries and applications. The actual algorithms used in processing the data will be much slower than the time taken to fetch the data off disk.
-- Nick Burrett Network Engineer, Designer Servers Ltd. http://www.dsvr.co.uk
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