[CentOS] MySQL on tmpfs?

William L. Maltby BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com
Thu Jul 27 18:10:36 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 19:58 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Mike Kercher schrieb:
> 
> >Has anyone ever mounted their /var/lib/mysql on a tmpfs or ramfs?  Are
> >there any performance gains to be made doing this?
> >
> A foolish idea to me. You imagine what happens if the machine hangs up?

I wasn't going to say anything because he used "mount", not "create",
"generate", "make", etc. I presummed he just wanted to mount the
directory there. No harm, but no goin either. In fact, a very smal
teensy-weensy loss probably, due to the extra step to get to things.

> 
> Alexander
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