On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Roland RoLaNd r_o_l_a_n_d@hotmail.com wrote:

Dear all,

i'm setting up a new machine to handle a webserver with mysql

web directory contains alot of small files and database is around 15 GB

i've did a bit research, read alot of articles.. mainly i came up with the understanding that:

EXT3 is the set it and forget it kind of filesystem. and reiserFS is the best choice for small files though there's a bigger risk of data loss upon power failure (better solved in ext3)

any advice on this matter? or any other filesystem you advise me to use on a production system?

thanks

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We use EXT3 on all our own, and client's web servers. It's stable and works well even with power failures. I'd rather sacrifice a bit of performance (does ReiserFS really improve performance *that* much?) than lost data.