InnoDB file data size against MyISAM files data sizes

2003-12-22 Thread MySQL Support
Hello, My HDD is running low and I MyISAM tables are keep crashing... I think that converting to InnoDB will be more stable, but what about the data files sizes? convertion to InnoDB will need more or less disk space than MyISAM? -thanks, Eli -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives:

Re: InnoDB file data size against MyISAM files data sizes

2003-12-22 Thread Richard F. Rebel
In my experience, I see about a 2x increase in space required between MyISAM and InnoDB. I believe this may be documented btw, check the InnoDB section of the manual. I have been using InnoDB for a couple years now on databases up to 180GB. InnoDB has been very robust and I have only once come