Paul DuBois writes:
> This is a followup on the recent discussion about moving a database
> directory out of the data directory and then putting a symlink to
> the new location in the data directory.
>
> There *is* one problem with this that I forgot about. There is
> no problem using the database, but in pre-3.23 versions of MySQL,
> if you execute DROP DATABASE, MySQL will remove all the files in the
> database, then give an error when it tries to remove the database
> directory. This fails because the "directory" is really a symlink.
> You must fix things up manually yourself.
>
> This problem is fixed in MySQL 3.23.
>
> Fix for pre-3.23 MySQL: don't drop the database. :-)
>
> --
> Paul DuBois, paul@stripped
>
Paul my friend,
Who said to use symlinks. Use links ....
Sinisa
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