On 1-Oct-08, at 1:56 AM, Ram Sharma wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Thanks for so many good comments. Perhaps I got even more than what > I asked for! > > I am targeting 1 million users for my application.My DB will be on > solaris machine.And the reason I am making one table per user is > that it will be a simple design as compared to keeping all the data > in single table.
You have a green light from ZFS experts, but there is no way you'd get that schema past a good DBA. This design will fail you long before you get near a million users. --Toby > In that case I need to worry about things like horizontal > partitioning which inturn will require higher level of management. > > So for storing 1 million MYISAM tables (MYISAM being a good > performer when it comes to not very large data) , I need to save 3 > million data files in a single folder on disk. This is the way > MYISAM saves data. > I will never need to do an ls on this folder. This folder > (~database) will be used just by MYSQL engine to exceute my SQL > queries and fetch me results. > And now that ZFS allows me to do this easily, I believe I can go > forward with this design easily.Correct me if I am missing something. > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
