I was looking for some functions for using in MySQL and I found this great article about optimizing the server that runs MySQL. It shows useful information including what type of API you should use for developing with the database.

Optimizing MySQL

One of the things that the article references is the virtual links for disks on MySQL. I did a small research and I found this other article that talks about this.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/symbolic-links.html

Save 5 minutes to read this, have a lot of useful information for the daily basis.

File: Presentation about Optimizing MySQL