On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Reindl Harald h.reindl@thelounge.net wrote:

abd what has the CPU type to do with the mysql datadir?

Really??? You've never used processors with different bit/byte order than Intel's? I don't know specifically about Mysql but pretty much anything that stores binary representations to disk needs to be converted.

speaking with 10 years expierience and some hundret databases originally created with MySQl 3.x on Windows, 4.x-5.0 running on MacOSX and since MySQL 5.1 until now with 5.5 as well as MariaDB 5.5 running on Linux without a single time payling around with dumps

So no sparc's or the like in the picture? Not sure which way powerpc macs ran.