ing I could get running on QNX.
...Stephen
-Original Message-
From: mos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Jul 30, 2004 10:23 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Installing MySQL Databases on RAM Drive
Ok, then it makes sense to use compact flash just for backup and not the
primary
oks like HEAP tables don't support the
BLOB field type and we are using it.
...Stephen
-Original Message-
From: Brent Baisley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Jul 30, 2004 6:19 AM
To: Egor Egorov
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Installing MySQL Databases on RAM Drive
Why use a RAM di
Just a thought, but perhaps you could set up a master/slave
on the box such that the master points to a RAM disk and the
slave points to disk. Then if someone pulls the plug or the
machine crashes, you'd still have almost all of the data on
disk. On startup, copy the slave's files to the RAM disk,
hen
-Original Message-
From: mos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Jul 30, 2004 7:38 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Installing MySQL Databases on RAM Drive
At 04:45 PM 7/28/2004, you wrote:
>Our customers are running MySQL 4.0.17 on QNX 6.2.1.
>
>We are currently using a flash drive
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Sent: Jul 30, 2004 7:38 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Installing MySQL Databases on RAM Drive
At 04:45 PM 7/28/2004, you wrote:
>Our customers are running MySQL 4.0.17 on QNX 6.2.1.
>
>We are currently using a flash drive to store our database but we want
>to store it in
At 04:45 PM 7/28/2004, you wrote:
Our customers are running MySQL 4.0.17 on QNX 6.2.1.
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
Flash drives are solid state (no moving parts) so you can't break them.
I've neve
Why use a RAM disk? Why not just load the tables into HEAP tables?
On Jul 29, 2004, at 11:51 AM, Egor Egorov wrote:
"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
"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 dat
