On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Jeremy Zawodny wrote:
> I'd use a combination of my.cnf entries and SQL. The my.cnf entry (or
> entries) woudl list the available directories, like others have
> suggested. Then, using SQL, you could:
>
> * Mark a table to be "spread out" at creation time vis some
> attribute.
>
> * Possibly do it after the fact using ALTER TABLE.
>
Maybe you are right. I am thinking about security and this is a not the
best idea if we introduce a way to write data anywhere on the disks on
user request. This can make MySQL as most used cracking tool on the web
;). Meanwhile any change in cnf file requires restart of MySQL which is
not always possible :(.
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