----- Original Message -----
> From: "Reindl Harald" <h.reindl@stripped>
>
> as far as i understodd the dameon was NOT down
>
> a pretty sure indication was his log:
> 121016 10:40:20 InnoDB: Database was not shut down normally!
> InnoDB: Starting crash recovery.
> InnoDB: Reading tablespace information from the .ibd files...
>
> the problem here is that people think a snapshot on a
> running system is always consistent, but it is not
Oh, I wasn't talking about his specific case, I was just trying to figure out why you
don't trust snapshots in general, since afaik they're pretty much equivalent to rsyncs.
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