At 2:59 PM -0700 7/11/1999, Scott Hess wrote:
>[On FreeBSD3.1, with MYSQL 3.22.23.]
>
>Empirical testing and the documentation both indicate that if I use symlinks
>to move the table.ISD, table.ISM, and table.frm files to a different
>filesystem, queries and updates and the like work fine.
>
>Unfortunately, when I do an OPTIMIZE TABLE on the table in question, it
>attempts to create the temporary table in the filesystem the database
>directory is on (ie, the filesystem the symlink is in, as opposed to the
>filesystem the symlink is _to_). This is pretty nasty, given that we want
>to move the tables in question to the other filesystem so that their I/O
>needs don't dominate the requests being made to other tables in the
>database! Worse, after OPTIMIZE TABLE completes, it removes the symlinks
>and replaces them with the optimized tables.
>
>Am I missing something?
No, and the same thing will happen with ALTER TABLE.
Do *NOT* use symlinks to relocate tables.
You could put the tables in a separate database and symlink the
database directory, on the other hand. But symlinking tables is
a bad idea.
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Paul DuBois, paul@stripped
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