Hi, Marko, On Jan 21, Marko Mäkelä wrote: > > > Why InnoDB tests depend on server's symlink support? > > InnoDB does not use symlinks, it uses isl files. > > In https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-26870 you suggested using > my_use_symdir, which I did. > That variable is bound to the Boolean start-up parameter symbolic_links. > > Changing InnoDB to use actual symlinks (and to stop creating > "databasename" directories, to be similar to other storage engines) > would be a file format change that could break downgrades to earlier > minor versions. Therefore, it is only doable in a development release.
That's not what I meant. I was saying, --skip-symbolic-links and filesystem support of symbolic links are unrelated. If --skip-symbolic-links was not specified, a filesystem can support symbolic links or not support them. In the latter case, I think, InnoDB technically still could use DATA DIRECTORY, even if MyISAM cannot. Regards, Sergei VP of MariaDB Server Engineering and secur...@mariadb.org _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers Post to : maria-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
