I don't symlink much anymore, but it's certainly saved my ass in the past. Folks without a great sense of capacity planning (or if their capacity plan is eSATA or SAS extenders with specific tables on specific drivesets), it's still useful...
-Dormando On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Brian Aker 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
