On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 05:19:23PM +0000, Robie Basak wrote: > This is (roughly) my plan in bug 841345. Except that since various third > party tooling expects /var/lib/mysql, I want to maintain that as a > symlink or something. So the data directories would be separate (keep > their own inode numbers, if that helps explain it), just that we rename > and/or symlink them around when switching variants to keep the name > /var/lib/mysql always leading to the current variant's data directory.
Thanks! That sounds wonderful, but as you say - very complicated! Yeesh. Julian
