Optimizing MySQL Performance with ZFS by Allan Packer (Sun Microsystems), Neelakanth Nadgir (Sun Microsystems) The official conference page is at http://www.mysqlconf.com/mysql2009/public/schedule/detail/7121 which includes the description

An overview of ZFS, and how to use the functionality of ZFS with MySQL, including performance improvements, to get the best out of ZFS.

This session will give you an overview about how to perform backups of a MySQL Server using file system snapshots. Lenz will explain the general procedure, Caveats and Gotchas with this backup technique and how to work around some of them. The talk will also introduce two very popular methods for performing the actual snapshots: Linux LVM and using ZFS snapshots. Other utilities suitable for creating snapshot are covered as well.

Developing MySQL on Solaris requires you to install a suitable compiler and other tools, but you may be surprised to know that most of the material is there already, or easy to install if it's not. But even more so, there is a huge wealth of information that you can get about your application while it's running, both with and without using more traditional debugging methods. We'll cover setting up a suitable environment, where to find the things you need, and and how to make use of the process monitoring tools and debugging environment to get the best out of development on Solaris generally, and MySQL specifically.

Using, installing and working with MySQL on OpenSolaris. - Note that the video must be downloaded to be able to view it!

Developing MySQL on Solaris requires you to install a suitable compiler and other tools, but you may be surprised to know that most of the material is there already, or easy to install if it's not. But even more so, there is a huge wealth of information that you can get about your application while it's running, both with and without using more traditional debugging methods. We'll cover setting up a suitable environment, where to find the things you need, and and how to make use of the process monitoring tools and debugging environment to get the best out of development on Solaris generally, and MySQL specifically.

Using, installing and working with MySQL on OpenSolaris. - Note that the video must be downloaded to be able to view it!

An overview of ZFS, and how to use the functionality of ZFS with MySQL, including performance improvements, to get the best out of ZFS.

This session will give you an overview about how to perform backups of a MySQL Server using file system snapshots. Lenz will explain the general procedure, Caveats and Gotchas with this backup technique and how to work around some of them. The talk will also introduce two very popular methods for performing the actual snapshots: Linux LVM and using ZFS snapshots. Other utilities suitable for creating snapshot are covered as well.