Silly question, but are you doing something like compacting,
removing air, or "optimizing" the database in any form?
If the blobs keep moving around, that makes finding common stuff
much much harder.
It will still have to read both sides even if almost everything is the same
> -Original
Hello,
So I do not think the basic data structure is the problem,
unless mysql hotcopy does something really strange like inserting a
timestamp or other changing data info every few KB in the output stream.
No, really, mysqlhotcopy performs just a raw file system copy of
/var/lib/mysql ta
