I just tested the new Intel X25-E Solid State Drive on RHEL-4 64-bit with three file systems (ext2, ext3 and XFS) using the sysbench fileio test.
The test is done to gauge the performance of SSD as a temporary solution to act as tmpdir for MySQL server where result set temporary files are heavily created.
Here is the test results:
Overall, ext2 yields much better results on random IO along with sequential read. All file systems are mounted with noatime and XFS is mounted with noatime + nobarrier
So, even if one …
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