From: Dan Nelson
Date: October 7 2007 2:26am
Subject: Re: SAN and ibdata files
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In the last episode (Oct 06), Ace said:
> Hi Experts,
> 
>       You all know the size problems with ibdata and log files. We plan to
> move those files to SAN to have maximum storage possible. We did so with
> configuration changes in my.cnf files to save log and ibdata files on SAN
> location. But got following error -
> 
> InnoDB: Unable to lock /opsolnfs/mysql/ibdata1, error: 13
> InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process
> InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files.
> 
>        Any concrete steps to overcome this problem? Your input will add
> value in solving our problem.

$ perror 13
OS error code  13:  Permission denied

Check permissions on your data directory.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@stripped