From: Karl Pielorz
Date: March 25 1999 7:49pm
Subject: Re: mysqladmin shutdown
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David Johnson wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> While one of our engineers was testing shutdown/startup scripts for our
> database, the database got horribly corrupted.  We ran isamchk and it
> "fixed" the problem, but hundreds of our rows got deleted.  The engineer
> ran:
> 
> mysqladmin shutdown
> 
> Did the problem occur because he didn't flush the tables first?  Any other
> ideas?

What version of Mysql & What operating system were you using? - I've only seen
the above once, which was caused by a known 'problem' and the O/S's native
Threads implementation (and this was a while ago)...

-Kp