Hi,
I guessed it was something like it and that is why I wanted to make sure how
it should be done. Using the ALTER TABLE table DISCARD TABLESPACE doesn't
seem to work as expected - I succeeded to crash the test server twice. See
the mysql log details below.
What I did was the following:
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If Linux works the same way as HP-UX (and it should), anything you do to an
open file (including deleting it) has no effect until the file is closed. The
MySQL server is still using the old file. The next time it stops and
restarts, it will follow the symlink. I don't know what the effect of
