Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On 2004-06-21T12:12:02,
Josh McAllister <josh at bluehornet.com> said:
> I understand why we can't do read only access of ext2/3 partitions as we
> need the file system to recognize that the underlying device is changing
> even though it's read-only. I'm wondering though if anyone has tried
> accessing a drbd device from MySQL as an InnoDB raw partition (for
> read-only of course)? If this can be accomplished it would be a great
> way to do some load balancing using the secondary machine for selects
> and the primary for all write operations.
>
> Thoughts?
I'd not bother, as MySQL can do read-only slaves internally and
consistently in a supported fashion.
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb at suse.de>
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