Szymon Jeż's questions

What and how much is it faster:

#mongod not running

mongorestore --dbpath /var/lib/mongodb --db test /some_dump

or

#mongod running

mongorestore --db test /some_dump

?

I could not quickly find an answer on the web and have no time now to do a benchmark.

I have a user named hedgehog and I want him to be named squirrel, but I don't want to change his numeric user ID.

How can I accomplish this?