Using system locking with mysqld.

2003-03-27 Thread Fred Clausen
Hi All,
I am in the process of deploying shared storage (SAN) via a external 
SCSI. Both machines will see the external SCSI raid as a local device 
(/dev/sda1). I am running various common internet services on there 
including mysql. I am going to enable the system locking by inserting 
"enable-locking" in my.cnf.

I just wish to check with you folks that this will prevent data 
consistency issues due to that fact that each server will be accessing 
the same data. Will system locking prevent data corruption? Are there 
any other issues I should be aware of? Only one server will be actively 
servicing requests at a time, I have them in a heartbeat "failover 
cluster" configuration sharing the storage so in theory the 2 mysqlds 
should not interefere with each other but I just wish to be safe.

My platform is MySQL 3.23.49 running on Linux 2.4.20 (on one server) and 
Linux 2.2.14 on other server, old kernel due to legacy proprietary 
driver needed (raidzone, not related to external storage). Same MySQL 
version.

Kind regards, Fred.
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Fred Clausen - Systems Administrator
Unique Interactive, part of UBC Media Group plc
Winners of the 2002 CRCA NTL New Media Award
http://www.ubcmedia.com
http://www.uniqueinteractive.co.uk
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Using system locking with mysqld.

2003-03-27 Thread Fred Clausen
Hi All,

I am in the process of deploying shared storage (SAN) via a external 
SCSI. Both machines will see the external SCSI raid as a local device 
(/dev/sda1). I am running various common internet services on there 
including mysql. I am going to enable the system locking by inserting 
"enable-locking" in my.cnf.

I just wish to check with you folks that this will prevent data 
consistency issues due to that fact that each server will be accessing 
the same data. Will system locking prevent data corruption? Are there 
any other issues I should be aware of? Only one server will be actively 
servicing requests at a time, I have them in a heartbeat "failover 
cluster" configuration sharing the storage so in theory the 2 mysqlds 
should not interefere with each other but I just wish to be safe.

My platform is MySQL 3.23.49 running on Linux 2.4.20 (on one server) and 
Linux 2.2.14 on other server, old kernel due to legacy proprietary 
driver needed (raidzone, not related to external storage). Same MySQL 
version.

Kind regards, Fred.

--
Fred Clausen - Systems Administrator
Unique Interactive, part of UBC Media Group plc
Winners of the 2002 CRCA NTL New Media Award
http://www.ubcmedia.com
http://www.uniqueinteractive.co.uk
T: +44 (0)20 7453 1667 F: +44 (0)20 7486 5081
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