--- On Fri, 12/12/08, Craig Dunn <li...@codenation.net> wrote: > I'm currently spec'ing out a design plan for a large > scale MySQL infrastructure to support a high-read large > scale web environment for a client. I've got the > overall MySQL set up planned out (which I'll post here > later to get peoples inputs/advice) but one issue which is > currently undecided is what operating system to support. > The boxes will be Sun AMD64 servers with 8 local disks each, > there are numerous people arguing for Solaris and equal > numbers arguing for Linux. >
I think whichever you and your team are more comfortable and knowledgable with. My personal view is that solaris usually requires a little bit more effort if you're intending to use lots of gnu based tools, and I found package management a bit of an arse ache. But solaris has other advantages e.g. dtrace, and I'm sure suns acquisition of mysql ab is also in it's favour. > So, leaving advocacy at the door, what is the best OS to > use for a MySQL set up, Solaris or Linux? And specifically, > the reasons why one is better or worse than the other. > > Also, what filesystem type to use for datadir would be > recommended for best performance, this question obviously > depends on what OS we're running. The applications > running on it will be mostly using MyISAM. > Suns ZFS is supposed to be miles ahead of the linux filesystems. We use ext3 on our postgres systems here, and I think for mysql you'd be best to use a journaled one whichever you pick, look at ext3 and XFS. Then their is ReiserFS, I know very little about except future develpoment is probably not going to be fast; the original developer is in prison. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
