"Stephen Rasku" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are currently using a flash drive to store our database but we want > to store it in a RAM disk to prolong the life of the drive. We want to > install the database on the RAM disk on startup and save it to flash on > shutdown. > > There are two databases that we are using. Neither is very big but one > is updated very frequently and the other one is not. However, even > though the databases are small, the ibdata1 file is 136M. Is there a > way to prevent this file from growing too big?
The InnoDB needs more disk space than MyISAM. Perhaps, you could use MyISAM? -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Egor Egorov / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL AB / Ensita.net <___/ www.mysql.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
