Kenneth Kopelson wrote:
> So, how do we get support in MySQL so that multiple instances of the mysqld
> daemon running on separate machines can all access the same database files
> located on a central server? I can see how the file system of the central
> database server could be exported through NFS (or something similar) so
> that all the machines in the cluster can access the database files. I also
> imagine the daemons would need to have some sort of locking mechanism to
> avoid stepping on each other.
>
Also... MySQL is open source, so the easiest way to get support for a
feature
it doesn't have is to get together a group of people to write it.
I would start with InnoDB format tables since table level locking would
probably
kill you on a such a large distributed environment.
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