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| From: | Stewart Smith | Date: | May 11 2007 7:45am |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Proposed patch for #22615: MySQL Server incorrectly catogorizes the lost+found directory as a database | ||
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On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 23:22 -0500, Holman Romero wrote: > > What about just having a mysys function that checks to see if the > > folder/file name is one of some magic reserved set by the OS and we can > > just call it in find files? > > > > Do other systems create directories like this? > > -- > > it would work in cases like, for instance, lost+found, but what to do > regarding _possible_ directories created within the mysql data > directory that are not actual databases. If it is not a problem, the > mysys function you suggest is ok. However, i think the server should > record somewhere that a new database exists at creation time. Remember that we have to maintain backwards compatibility with past versions... I'm not sure when db.opt came into being. -- Stewart Smith, Software Engineer MySQL AB, www.mysql.com Office: +14082136540 Ext: 6616 VoIP: 6616@stripped Mobile: +61 4 3 8844 332 Jumpstart your cluster: http://www.mysql.com/consulting/packaged/cluster.html Attachment: [application/pgp-signature] This is a digitally signed message part signature.asc
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