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Optimizing MySQL Performance with ZFS
- russss 17y agoSun have been courting us for a while, and about a year ago they managed to get our custom for two fairly sizeable (but still commodity x86_64) pieces of hardware to run our global DB on. Naturally, they were keen to have us running Solaris, so we gave Solaris + ZFS a shot (the DB is Postgres). Long story short, ZFS didn't perform so well at all, so Sun shipped over a bearded expert to take a look at it for us. After regaling us with anecdotes of how things used to work back in the good old days of 1981, he told us that ZFS wasn't really suited to heavy DB workloads and we'd be much better off using UFS instead. So we wiped them and put Linux on them. Nice machines, still.