File system for SQL databases?

Hello SuSE folkz, Could somebody recommend me please what FS should be used for SQL database partition. I want to run MySQL DB on my server and it has following options: 1. MySQL database can handle a raw device partition to store and organize the data. 2. MySQL can store InnoDB table data in a large data files on the top of existing FS. Which method is more preferable and what journaling FS is more suitable to handle datafiles of 500 MB each? Thank you in advance Alex