On 11/11/2005 11:41 a.m., Adam Dixon wrote:
> Ill definatly be looking to upgrade to 5.1 when stable for the disk based
> clustering feature. The manual says;
> *Support for disk-based records*: Records on disk will be supported. Indexed
> fields including the primary key hash index must still be stored in RAM but
> all other fields can be on disk.
>
> Which is totally unclear as to exactly how it will work. eg is it whole
> tables only on disk, partitions of tables etc. I wonder if someone could
> provide a more detailed description on how it will work.
>
> Adam
>
More importantly, will there be a significant performance penalty?
-Simon
