I’ve been very excited seeing that we announced the Maria Engine Preview. Giuseppe and I were trying to setup a demo, for Maria, at the lightning talks happening later today, towards the end of the MySQL MiniConf at linux.conf.au 2008. It involved MySQL with Maria, and an Asus Eee PC. For the demo, we wanted to show pulling the plug, which can be done either via a kill -9 `pgrep mysqld` or pulling out the battery of the Eee.
However, we failed to get MyISAM to reliably crash! Yes, imagine that, we actually want it to crash - pity that it might have only happened about 1/3rd of the time we tested it. The magic we were looking for:
check table t1; +---------+-------+----------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | Table | Op | …[Read more]