> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julien Lory [mailto:julien.lory@stripped]
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 12:31 PM
> To: mysql@stripped
> Subject: Symlinks not working when pointing to another table.
>
> Hello,
>
> I've done lot of researches and tests but can't find any
> answer. I need
> to share one table between two db, those two db are in the
> same path (
> /var/lib/mysql/db1 & db2 ). I created symbolic links for db2
> pointing to
> the table in db1.
> When I query the table from db2 I get this error :
> 'ERROR 1030 (HY000): Got error 140 from storage engine'
> I'm sure it was working in previous version of MySQL, but
> from the last
> version it's no longer working.
>
> This is how it looks :
>
> test-lan:/var/lib/mysql/test3# ls -alh
> drwx------ 2 mysql mysql 4.0K 2010-08-30 13:28 .
> drwxr-xr-x 6 mysql mysql 4.0K 2010-08-30 13:29 ..
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 mysql mysql 28 2010-08-30 13:28 blbl.frm ->
> /var/lib/mysql/test/blbl.frm
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 mysql mysql 28 2010-08-30 13:28 blbl.MYD ->
> /var/lib/mysql/test/blbl.MYD
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 mysql mysql 28 2010-08-30 13:28 blbl.MYI ->
> /var/lib/mysql/test/blbl.MYI
> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 65 2010-08-30 13:24 db.opt
>
>
> I really need those symlinks, is there a way to make them
> working like
> before ? ( old MySQL-server is fine )
Just out of curiosity. If you're using apparmor and this new directory is
on another partion or mount point or anything, you might have to add a rule
in apparmor's config for them...
