Re: MyISAM RAID Tables in the MySQL-MAX Binaries?

2002-02-25 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 11:21:26PM -0800, Steven Roussey wrote: > > Are RAID tables supposed to be enabled in the -MAX binaries? They > > appear not to be (in 4.0.1), and that surprises me a bit. > > I thought RAID tables were retired in MySQL 4. Hmm. The "have_raid&q

Re: MyISAM RAID Tables in the MySQL-MAX Binaries?

2002-02-25 Thread Steven Roussey
> Are RAID tables supposed to be enabled in the -MAX binaries? They > appear not to be (in 4.0.1), and that surprises me a bit. I thought RAID tables were retired in MySQL 4. It was only a split for the data files anyhow, not the index files, so it was incomplete at best for getting arou

MyISAM RAID Tables in the MySQL-MAX Binaries?

2002-02-25 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
Are RAID tables supposed to be enabled in the -MAX binaries? They appear not to be (in 4.0.1), and that surprises me a bit. It thought that the point of the -MAX binaries was to enable all the bells and whistles by default. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical

Backing up raid tables

2001-06-21 Thread Adriano Manocchia
Well, I successfully solved our 2 gig file limit problem with RAID tables without too much hassle, despite a dearth of documentation. However, it has introduced another significant problem. It would seem mysqldump isn't smart enough to look for raided tables. Taking the server down

Re: Important bug in RAID tables

2001-06-19 Thread Patrizio Bruno
I can't reproduce the error using a different database configuration and I can't use the same database schema to make my test (the machine is now in production state), so I attached to this mail te sql file used to create the tables, this database is used by ASPseek 1.2.0, you can download it at w

Re: Important bug in RAID tables

2001-06-19 Thread Patrizio Bruno
I can't reproduce the error using a different database configuration and I can't use the same database schema to make my test (the machine is now in production state), so I attached to this mail te sql file used to create the tables, this database is used by ASPseek 1.2.0, you can download it at w

Re: Important bug in RAID tables

2001-06-19 Thread Tonu Samuel
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Patrizio Bruno wrote: > > BTW, why did you change the chunksize? By default it is 256000 and I > > tested it for speed with many different values. 256000 seemed to be best > > value. If you have any experience showing that I was wrong, please share > > it with me. > > I was

Re: raid tables

2001-06-19 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 04:49:58AM +0200, Tonu Samuel wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Jeremy Zawodny wrote: > > > I'd use a combination of my.cnf entries and SQL. The my.cnf entry (or > > entries) woudl list the available directories, like others have > > suggested. Then, using SQL, you could: > >

Re: raid tables

2001-06-18 Thread Tonu Samuel
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Jeremy Zawodny wrote: > I'd use a combination of my.cnf entries and SQL. The my.cnf entry (or > entries) woudl list the available directories, like others have > suggested. Then, using SQL, you could: > > * Mark a table to be "spread out" at creation time vis some > at

Re: Important bug in RAID tables

2001-06-18 Thread Tonu Samuel
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Patrizio Bruno wrote: > "select max(field) from table" returns the greatest field's value in the first > file of the RAID table (successive files are not considered), adding a where > clause (for ex. "select max(field) from table where field2 >= 200") the > problem seems

Re: raid tables

2001-06-18 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 03:56:32AM -0700, Jamie Krasnoo wrote: > > [mysqld] > datadir=/data1;/data2;/data3 > > - or - > > datadir=/data1:/data2:/data3 > > As it stands now, both will produce an error and MySQL will not start. > > Other ways could be like: RAID_DIRS=/data1:/data2:/data3 Well,

Important bug in RAID tables

2001-06-18 Thread Patrizio Bruno
"select max(field) from table" returns the greatest field's value in the first file of the RAID table (successive files are not considered), adding a where clause (for ex. "select max(field) from table where field2 >= 200") the problem seems not to exist. I don't know if the bug is limited to

RE: raid tables

2001-06-18 Thread Sander Pilon
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 18 June 2001 14:40 > To: Tonu Samuel > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: raid tables > > > Hi Samuel > > I would do this in sql. I thinks this would be much more > convenient to administrate. It would be great if you would >

Re: raid tables

2001-06-18 Thread Markwalder Philip
unday, June 17, 2001 11:53 PM > > To: Jamie Krasnoo > > Cc: MySQL > > Subject: Re: raid tables > > > > > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 11:48:04PM -0700, Jamie Krasnoo wrote: > > > > > > Is there a way to tell MySQL to automatically spread its tables ove

Re: raid tables

2001-06-18 Thread Anthony W . Marino
Isn't this something that RAID O does for you on a larger scale anyway? I would expect that most would have some sort of raid on their mutliple drive system. On Monday 18 June 2001 01:52 am, you wrote: > On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 11:48:04PM -0700, Jamie Krasnoo wrote: > > Is there a way to tell My

RE: raid tables

2001-06-18 Thread Tonu Samuel
S you could tell how many directories MySQL should make. > The script could evenly distribute those directories and make the links and > directories for MySQL. > Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 11:53 PM > To: Jamie Krasnoo > Cc: MySQL > Subject: Re: raid tables > > > On Sun,

RE: raid tables

2001-06-18 Thread Jamie Krasnoo
could evenly distribute those directories and make the links and directories for MySQL. Jamie -Original Message- From: Jeremy Zawodny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 11:53 PM To: Jamie Krasnoo Cc: MySQL Subject: Re: raid tables On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 11:48:04PM

Re: raid tables

2001-06-17 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 11:48:04PM -0700, Jamie Krasnoo wrote: > > Is there a way to tell MySQL to automatically spread its tables over > a number of disks without going through the trouble of symbolic > linking the chunks to the different disks? There isn't yet, no. It'd certainly be a nice addi

raid tables

2001-06-17 Thread Jamie Krasnoo
Is there a way to tell MySQL to automatically spread its tables over a number of disks without going through the trouble of symbolic linking the chunks to the different disks? Thanks, Jamie Krasnoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Before p

configuring MySQL for raid tables

2001-05-20 Thread Jamie Krasnoo
MySQL's raid function says that it can use multiple drives/directories to put its database in to get over the 2GB limit. How do I configure MySQL to make sure that it knows about the drives when its instructed to create a table as RAID_TYPE = STRIPPED ? Would I put in my.cnf: [mysqld] datadir=/db

RE: raid tables doesnt seem to split files.

2001-01-16 Thread Christian Teil Have
RAID tables works fine for me. I don't know which OS you are running, i got it to work with a linux box like this: 1. Upgrade to the 2.4 linux kernel(Or patch an older kernel with the LFS patch) 2. Recompile mysql 3.23 with the --with-raid configure option (the precompiled binaries do

Re: raid tables doesnt seem to split files.

2001-01-16 Thread funky gao
Hi Firdaus! On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Firdaus Mah wrote: > Hi Jerome, > > Heh... I'm already doomed. I'ved just inserted 32 million records and its > stopped at 2GB even using on reiserfs. > I'ved not checked the detail or experience in Postgress development. Does it > do stripping as well ie breaki