I've followed the instructions at https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/innodb-read-only-instance.html
Which starts with: 14.6.2 Configuring InnoDB for Read-Only Operation You can now query InnoDB tables where the MySQL data directory is on read-only media, by enabling the --innodb-read-only configuration option at server startup. Exactly what I want to do. However the server bails out trying to create files. 2017-09-07T02:12:33.688368Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Started in read only mode 2017-09-07T02:12:33.688405Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins 2017-09-07T02:12:33.688410Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Uses event mutexes 2017-09-07T02:12:33.688415Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: GCC builtin __atomic_thread_fence() is used for memory barrier 2017-09-07T02:12:33.688419Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.11 2017-09-07T02:12:33.688695Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Number of pools: 1 2017-09-07T02:12:33.688803Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Using CPU crc32 instructions 2017-09-07T02:12:33.688810Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Disabling background log and ibuf IO write threads. 2017-09-07T02:12:33.690040Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, total size = 1G, instances = 8, chunk size = 128M 2017-09-07T02:12:33.809821Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool 2017-09-07T02:12:33.836689Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Highest supported file format is Barracuda. 2017-09-07T02:12:33.852709Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Creating shared tablespace for temporary tables 2017-09-07T02:12:33.852757Z 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: Operating system error number 13 in a file operation. 2017-09-07T02:12:33.852764Z 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: The error means mysqld does not have the access rights to the directory. 2017-09-07T02:12:33.852769Z 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: Operating system error number 13 in a file operation. 2017-09-07T02:12:33.852774Z 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: The error means mysqld does not have the access rights to the directory. 2017-09-07T02:12:33.852779Z 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: Cannot open datafile '/var/db/mysql/ibtmp1' 2017-09-07T02:12:33.852784Z 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: Unable to create the shared innodb_temporary 2017-09-07T02:12:33.852789Z 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: Plugin initialization aborted with error Cannot open a file 2017-09-07T02:12:34.067298Z 0 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' init function returned error. 2017-09-07T02:12:34.067315Z 0 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed. 2017-09-07T02:12:34.067322Z 0 [ERROR] Failed to initialize plugins. 2017-09-07T02:12:34.067327Z 0 [ERROR] Aborting For what it's worth /var/db/mysql is chmod 550, chown mysql:mysql, so the mysql user has read access to the directory but can't create files in it. I've examined the source and found: /* Open temp-tablespace and keep it open until shutdown. */ err = srv_open_tmp_tablespace(create_new_db, &srv_tmp_space); if (err != DB_SUCCESS) { return(srv_init_abort(err)); } in storage/innobase/srv/srv0start.cc which is not wrapped with a if (!srv_read_only_mode) Is this a bug I am hitting or am I holding it wrong? -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql