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
… unsyncronised slaves. Percona XtraDB Cluster is fully compatible with MySQL or Percona Server in the following meaning: Data compatibility. Percona XtraDB Cluster works… start work with Percona XtraDB Cluster Percona XtraDB Cluster is based on Percona Server with XtraDB and includes Write Set REPlication patches. It uses…
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…
Comment: MariaDB 5.3 is released as GA!
… is interesting to note that before I pointed out that Percona Server even exists, it had not meen mentioned at all… where people are not even aware of the existence of Percona. It didn’t look like a very enlightened discussion. (But… it is the case that distros would only want to patch security issues whereas MySQL also fixes non-security bugs like…
Comment: MariaDB 5.3 is released as GA!
… 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…
Comment: Announcing Percona XtraBackup 1.9.1
That’s not a bad idea for a feature – the best ways to have it happen are: 1) Engage Percona and fund its development 2) write a patch implementing it 3) Write up a Blueprint on Launchpad for it and hope somebody implements it.
Post: Introducing percona-patches for 5.1
… stage the patches are available only in source code, you can get them from Launchpad https://code.launchpad.net/~percona-dev/percona-patches/5… during 3600 session (more is better) As you see with percona patches you can get just about 10x improvement. Yeah, that sounds… and in buffer_pool mutex contention, which alredy fixed in percona-patches ( and in XtraDB and InnoDB-plugin also). So you are…
Post: How Percona Develops Open-Source Software
… our three core efforts at the moment are the following: Percona patches, which are included in our own MySQL builds and then… to be going into the MySQL codebase, not the Percona codebase. Percona‘s relationship to the rest of the community is that… patches, but with the customers’ needs solved, the onus is on them to do it, which seems fair — after all, Percona and Percona…
Post: 5.0.87-build20 Percona binaries
… MySQL server with Percona patches is available in Percona RPM repository via YUM. To make it working add a file Percona.repo in /etc…. The Percona patches live on Launchpad : https://launchpad.net/percona-patches and you can report bug to Launchpad bug system: https://launchpad.net/percona-patches/+filebug…

