On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 09:38:09AM +0200, Richard Fuchs wrote:
> 
> well it wasn't my choice. personally i'm a linux guy, but right now i'd 
> rather have minimum downtime w/o too much playing around.

Ah, got it.

> > Interesting.  The skip-name-resolve shouldn't be an issue when using
> > LinuxThreads.  As for enable-locking, that sounds suspicious.  You
> > weren't running other proceses outside of MySQL that might work with
> > the data files (myisamchk, for example), were you?
> 
> no of course not :) unless the default freebsd install comes with some 
> cron jobs or something that do something nasty with the tables behind 
> the scenes (just kidding, but i've actually checked for that).

Good.

> is it possible that the internal locking is broken and doesnt work
> right, and the use of external locking works as a kind of workaround
> for this?

Yeah, that's what it's starting to sounds like.

Jeremy
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