From: Johan De Meersman Date: October 17 2012 12:08pm Subject: Re: Odd Behavior During Replication Start-Up List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/228438 Message-Id: <18652267.8274.1350475711144.JavaMail.root@tuxera.be> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Reindl Harald" > > 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. -- Linux Bier Wanderung 2012, now also available in Belgium! August, 12 to 19, Diksmuide, Belgium - http://lbw2012.tuxera.be