[ale] MySQL and Redhat 7.2 with ext3

[Jim]

I asked because the optimization tasks are different, depending on your 
objective. In this case, you need to look closely at indexing. But people on 
the MySQL mailing list report running databases with a million rows without 
problems. So, MySQL is certainly up to the task of holding large amounts of 
information. 

On Tuesday 03 September 2002 11:40 am, John Cole wrote:
> Howdy!
>
> I'll be dumping large quantities of data every day (actually, every second
> but each day it's about 90-130MB total).
>
> I'll also be doing searches from this database for analyzing the data.
>
> The tables are populated with several fields (the largest field has 250
> characters worth of data at most)
>
> (perhaps I should have stated,   How do I ensure that MySQL will accept
> that much data without dieing)
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim [mailto:jcphil at mindspring.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 11:28 AM
> To: John Cole; 'ale at ale.org'
> Subject: Re: [ale] MySQL and Redhat 7.2 with ext3
>
> On Tuesday 03 September 2002 11:27 am, John Cole wrote:
> > Howdy all!
> >
> > I'm trying to create a rather large database.
> > I'm using MySQL and Redhat 7.2 with ext3 for my file system.
> >
> > How do I ensure that ext3 will handle large files?  Also, how do I ensure
> > that MySQL will accept them?
> >
> > (I'll be dumping ~90-130MB everyday to it.)
>
> What are you asking about in relation to MySQL? Do you want tables to
> contain
> very large files? Or are you just expecting the overall database to be very
> large?
>
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