On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:
> I used to make Unix soft links of mysql tables back on mysql 3.23.
>
> [...]
>
> But I wonder if there is anything intrinsically wrong in the usage of
> soft-links, or whether this might be an indication instead of hardware
> problems with
I used to make Unix soft links of mysql tables back on mysql 3.23.
Say that I do an arbitrary sequence of CREATE TABLE, LOAD LOCAL DATA
INFILE, INSERT, UPDATE etc. on a table "x".
At some stage (after the CREATE) I do (outside of mysql)
foreach i (MYD MYI frm)
ln -s x.$i xdup.$i
