At 21:36 -0600 11/5/02, Nicholas Gaugler wrote:
I want to alleviate some activity from my drives by changing the group_home_dir & arch_dir variables for Innodb to a ram disk drive, /dev/shm/. Other than loosing all transactions that were taking place during a box crash, are there any problems with this? If the box crashes (which shouldn't happen) or I reboot the server, I will loose all of these files, Innodb should be able to re-create them with ease though, correct?
The logs contain the information necessary to recover from a crash. If you put them in a RAM disk and you have a crash, you lose the information necessary to recover from the crash.
InnoDB can create *new* log files after a crash, but I'm not sure your tables will be in a consistent state. And without the previous logs, it might be difficult to put them in a consistent state.
This should help speed transactions up and alleviate some activity on my over burden drives, I hope. Does anyone have any valid input or problems with this situation? Thanks in advance, nickg sql,query
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