[DRBD-user] mysql on drdb or mysql replication

Luc de Louw luc at delouw.ch
Fri Feb 10 18:06:09 CET 2006

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
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Nate Reed wrote:
> On Friday 10 February 2006 10:51, Pierre Ancelot wrote:
>> Don't do this, you will corrupt your database.
>> mysql deals with the database in memory of each node
>>
>> Meaning if you do this,
>>
>> every node will load database from the files
>> each node will modify the database in memory.
> 
> This is not a problem if you only have one active node since you would only 
> run mysql on the active.

Running a MySQL Cluster on a single node makes no sense for me. The 
complexity of MySQL Clusters to set up and maintain is not worth the few 
seconds you win when switching the active node.

Eighter run it on DRBD (Proved working and stable) or test it with 
MySQL-Cluster.

rgds

Luc



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