Re: Which Filesystem to choose?

[Heikki Tuuri]

Chris,

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <chris@stripped>
Newsgroups: mailing.database.myodbc
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 10:24 AM
Subject: Which Filesystem to choose?


> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to set up a new Opteron-Based MySQL-Server.
> The only thing I'm unsure about is which filesystem to choose..
>
> ext3? ReiserFS? XFS?
> What's your experience?

my impression is that all three have the same performance and reliability.

Opteron + Linux as a platform, on the other hand, still seems to have quite 
a few unexplained hardware faults or OS bugs.

> Thanks
>
> chris

Best regards,

Heikki Tuuri
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