RE: Two daemons, 1 data dir.

2002-01-18 Thread John Lodge
My concern would be, what is the mysqld without a database going to do. Wouldn't it need some kind of dummy data dir. I'm sure the daemon does some random checks of its data to ensure that it is still there. If this is not a problem then this seems fine. As far as the OS goes, I would like to s

Re: Two daemons, 1 data dir.

2002-01-18 Thread Jörgen Winqvist
Hi, I'm not sure if I understand you but you can't have the datadir/database filesystem monted read-write on the two servers at the same time. At least not with consistensy. Perhaps with innodb on raw devices? /Jörgen CyberSushi wrote: >Hi, > >I've got 2 mysql server that I want to configure

RE: Two daemons, 1 data dir.

2002-01-18 Thread Simon Green
Yes you can run two or more MySQLD's for one database. You seem to know the problems with this.. I would use Linux but I just find it easy to use mysqld is stable but if it is not you could just kill it and restart a new one. What is more important is the data, how are you protecting that? If