[CentOS] Mysql databases from old system?

Fri Nov 15 16:49:57 UTC 2013
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

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.

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   Les Mikesell
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