Re: Archive Engine Question

2013-09-19 Thread Tim Callaghan
If you are looking for great compression another option is TokuDB. It supports quicklz, zlib, and lzma compression. On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 2:30 AM, Manuel Arostegui wrote: > 2013/9/17 Wayne Leutwyler > > > Hello List, > > > > I have a customer who is wanting to use the Archive Engine. I have

Re: Mysql server - which filesystem to choose? Is it really that important nowadays?

2013-05-23 Thread Tim Callaghan
Thanks for the information, I'll give it a try myself. On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 5:02 AM, Manuel Arostegui wrote: > > > > 2013/5/22 Tim Callaghan > >> Rafal, >> >> I don't believe TRIM is supported for XFS. >> > > I tried this two weeks

Re: Mysql server - which filesystem to choose? Is it really that important nowadays?

2013-05-22 Thread Tim Callaghan
Rafal, I benchmark a lot on various hardware and software configurations. When I started 2 years back I went along with the general consensus that XFS is faster than ext4 for MySQL. I recently had the opportunity to see how much of a difference, if any, it made. I didn't find much, especially o