On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at 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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com