Re: Database back up again

[Fraser Farrell <fraser@trilobytes.com.au>]

Michael Sallman wrote:
> On the database problem, does anyone know if MySQL has a size limit on
> index files? I know there are size limits/defaults on the tables
> themselves (which I ran into a while back with the observations table)
> that can be tweaked, but I haven't found anything on the index files.


Michael,

Don't know of any size limit specific to mySQL; but you might bump into 
filesystem limits as the files grow? Some Linuxes have maximum-filesize 
limits. Or if you have lots of files in a partition, you can run out of 
inodes before you fill up the partition.


cheers,


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Fraser Farrell

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