Re: innodb on linux raw partitions

2001-08-21 Thread jaab
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Matt Wagner wrote: > It has been a great combination for me. Although I've never gone thru > an HD crash/recovery with this setup yet... :) Well, I just did, and it works like a charm. There is only one thing to watch out for: if you restart the system with the failed disk di

Re: innodb on linux raw partitions

2001-08-20 Thread Christian Jaeger
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 22:24:26 +0300 "Heikki Tuuri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My impression comes from a MySQL AB computer > with Red Hat 6.2 (kernel something like 2.2.19). >From what I read, RedHat often patches their kernels with inofficial stuff (and the >famous inofficial/buggy gcc thing (

Re: innodb on linux raw partitions

2001-08-20 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:37:28AM +0800, Tonu Samuel wrote: > On 20 Aug 2001 11:09:37 -0700, Jeremy Zawodny wrote: > > > Does this impression come from your bad experiences or those of > > others? I ask because we're about to upgrade one of our Linux MySQL > > servers to the 2.4.x kernel series

Re: innodb on linux raw partitions

2001-08-20 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Tonu Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 20 Aug 2001 11:09:37 -0700, Jeremy Zawodny wrote: > > > Does this impression come from your bad experiences or those of > > others? I ask because we're about to upgrade one of our Linux MySQL > > servers to the 2.4.x kernel series and are looking to

Re: innodb on linux raw partitions

2001-08-20 Thread Tonu Samuel
On 20 Aug 2001 11:09:37 -0700, Jeremy Zawodny wrote: > Does this impression come from your bad experiences or those of > others? I ask because we're about to upgrade one of our Linux MySQL > servers to the 2.4.x kernel series and are looking to use software > RAID + ReiserFS on it. > > If that'

Re: innodb on linux raw partitions

2001-08-20 Thread Heikki Tuuri
: Heikki Tuuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, August 20, 2001 10:02 PM Subject: Re: innodb on linux raw partitions >Jeremy Zawodny writes: >> On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 07:35:17PM +0300, Heikki Tuuri wrote: >> >> > I have the impression that current sofware

Re: innodb on linux raw partitions

2001-08-20 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 07:35:17PM +0300, Heikki Tuuri wrote: > I have the impression that current sofware RAID is not reliable in > Linux. Does this impression come from your bad experiences or those of others? I ask because we're about to upgrade one of our Linux MySQL servers to the 2.4.x ke

Re: innodb on linux raw partitions

2001-08-20 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Christian, Linux raw partitions are of course supported. Peter Duffy already got them working with 3.23.40. In .41 I have removed data file size checks if you put the keyword 'newraw' or 'raw' after the file size. Look in the manual! The idea in using raw partitions is that then the i/o bypasses

innodb on linux raw partitions

2001-08-20 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hello I read in http://www.mysql.com/doc/I/n/InnoDB_Disk_i_o.html that Innodb supports raw partitions on "some unixes". We look forward to use innodb on debian (intel): are linux raw partitions supported? Is it wise to try to use linux2.4 raw partitions with innodb on a production system? I h