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		davcro on Nov 15, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MySQL in the cloud at Airbnb This doesn't work at scale. The IO performance with LVM is terrible. I lost a lot of money trying to implement this. Percona wrote Xtrabackup as a replacement for LVM. Documentation: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/02/05/disaster-lvm-... http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/02/24/xtrabackup-op...

spudlyo on Nov 16, 2010 [–]

The write performance with LVM is terrible.

LVM snapshots on read slaves or during times when you have sufficient write capacity work as advertised.

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