I agree with Jeremy. It may be a bad practice to symlink dirs for mysql but if you run into a situation where you need it (ie. you've filled up the disk on a box and you plan to limp along with a new volume that is symlinked into the data dir till new hardware can be stood up to replace it) it would really be frustrating to not have it. A better solution might be to have a global sql variable ALLOW_SYMLINKS that is set to 'off' by default. At least that way it could be turned on without a re-compile of Drizzle. Thoughts?
--Koa On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 10:46 -0700, Jeremy Zawodny wrote: > I think it's still incredibly useful to be able to move stuff around > with symlinks. > > Until we're all runnning ZFS by default, I think the transparency of > MyISAM's data storage (and other engines that do the same) is greatly > appreciated in times of space crisis, data migration, and so on. > > That said, I wouldn't try to convince anyone to make a *new* engine > symlink friendly if it takes much extra effort. > > Jeremy > > > On 10/19/08, Brian Aker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > Historically folks have been able to control the directory of > datafiles and indexfiles for MyISAM. They have also been able > to "symlink" file around in the directories. Now this has > opened up a can of worms in the past, but the security issues > around it have not come up in recent time. > > Seeing how modern disks are configured is this something we > should be supporting in the future? Does it still make sense? > > I am leaning toward "no" but it would be nice to hear from > deployment folks if this matters. > > Cheers, > -Brian > > -- > _______________________________________________________ > Brian "Krow" Aker, brian at tangent.org > Seattle, Washington > http://krow.net/ <-- Me > http://tangent.org/ <-- Software > _______________________________________________________ > You can't grep a dead tree. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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