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...ot and its' easting up valuable disk space. So I had an idea. What about uses the fuse based s3fs to mount an S3 bucket on the local filesystem and use that as your mysql data dir? In other words mount your s3 bucket on /var/lib/mysql I used this article to setup the s3fs file system http://benjisimon.blogspot.com/2011/01/setting-up-s3-backup-solution-on-centos.html And everything went as planned. So my question to you dear listers is if I do start using a locally mounted s3 bucket as my mysqld data dir, will performance of the database be acceptable? If so, why? If not are there any other reas...