Just shut down all the servers before copying the files.
Check out live replication.
It may be a better solution.
Mark Hennessy wrote:
>I have a Master MySQL server which does not listen publicly, and it
>distributes a database to my publicly accessible MySQL servers via
>rdist/ssh every 15 mins or so by copying the table files. Is there any
>flushing that has to be done for the newly rdist'd files to be used by
>the public MySQL servers?
>
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