On 1/26/07, Dominik Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Michael Stearne schrieb:
> We have 5.0.27 installed on a CentOS machine that doesn't have a ton
> of disk space. Is it possible to point the data directory to lie on a
> samba connected share? The samba share does not support Unix file
> permissions so it is not possible to set mysql as the owner of the
> files. Is this possible at all?
If you use proper mount-options, you can set the owner of the files.
mount -t smbfs -o uid=mysql $SHARE $DESTINATION
In general: This should not be a problem, but it will be slow as the
network is propably slower than your local disc. Guess you knew that.
Yep. I'll try this . Thanks a lot!
Michael
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