On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 11:21:26PM -0800, Steven Roussey wrote:
> > Are RAID tables supposed to be enabled in the -MAX binaries?  They
> > appear not to be (in 4.0.1), and that surprises me a bit.
> 
> I thought RAID tables were retired in MySQL 4.

Hmm.  The "have_raid" variable is still there in SHOW VARIABLES.

> It was only a split for the data files anyhow, not the index files,
> so it was incomplete at best for getting around the lack of large
> file support in some (now old) OSes.

I agree.

> For speed, RAID is best handled by the OS or hardware.

And that's basically what I just finished writing. :-) But I also had
to write that in order you get RAID, you *must* recompile MySQL.  I'm
not sure if that's by design or a simple omission.

Jeremy
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