sandeep, I am not aware about alternative in ext4. There is a patch for MySQL which can do somewhat similar on any filesystem (this comes with Percona XtraDB Cluster)
Post: Announcement of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.20 GA release
…compatible with MySQL or Percona Server in the following meaning: Data compatibility. Percona XtraDB Cluster works with databases created in MySQL / Percona …work with Percona XtraDB Cluster Percona XtraDB Cluster is based on Percona Server with XtraDB and includes Write Set REPlication patches. …
Post: Percona welcomes Drizzle 7.1
… Drizzle function HTTP JSON API (experimental) Some of the Percona InnoDB patches have been merged Since Drizzle 7.0 (which was released…_DICTIONARY tables, the Drizzle protocol plugin, authentication from a file, MySQL UNIX socket protocol, javascript plugin, authentication via tables (similar to…
Comment: MariaDB 5.3 is released as GA!
… things MySQL every day, it was weird to see a discussion where people are not even aware of the existence of Percona. It didn’t look like a very enlightened discussion. (But yeah, they weren’t saying Oracle is closing MySQL source… is the case that distros would only want to patch security issues whereas MySQL also fixes non-security bugs like server crash…
Comment: MariaDB 5.3 is released as GA!
… microsecond timestamp support in version 5.6, yes. MySQL is unlikely to be a usable solution for GIS anytime … write a blog post on the differences between MariaDB and Percona Server. They are fundamentally different and targeted towards very different… lot of misconceptions, such as “Percona Server is just a set of patches” or “MariaDB has everything Percona Server has and more.” Henrik…
Comment: How FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK works with Innodb Tables
… this better for some use cases in MariaDB. The Facebook patch has an InnoDB-only solution that avoids blocking. I think… having to support MyISAM and I hope that the distributions (Percona, MariaDB, MySQL) also provide a solution. See “START TRANSACTION WITH CONSISTENT…
Post: Percona's patches spread to a wider audience
… builds with features (Percona patches, Google patches, etc) and storage engines (PBXT, Sphinx, etc) that aren’t in the main MySQL server. Arjen Lentz is really the brainchild behind this. Kudos Arjen! What does this mean for the Percona patches? Well…. The Percona patches and builds represent our best judgment about what’s the state of the art in the MySQL server for…
Post: 5.0.87-build20 Percona binaries
… build of MySQL server with Percona patches. Comparing to the previous release it has following new features: The build is based on MySQL-5… build 20 MySQL server with Percona patches is available in Percona RPM repository via YUM. To make it working add a file Percona.repo in… you can download binaries and sources with the patches here http://www.percona.com/mysql/5.0.87-b20/ There is Debian packages…
Post: 5.0.86-build19 Percona binaries
… patches here http://www.percona.com/mysql/5.0.86-b19/ There is Debian packages repository available since Build 19. To install MySQL with Percona patches…-get update # apt-get install mysql-server-5.0 The Percona patches live on Launchpad : https://launchpad.net/percona-patches and you can report bug…
Post: Percona builds with Percona patchsets
…: mysql-5.0.62-percona.tar.bz2 md5:0d8a37e09eca93cde6170866293a82ff mysql-5.1.26-percona.tar.bz2 md5:0574b38755786a97bc476058051cbe82 You can find the individual patches here: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/mysql-patches/ Besides…

