Christian Hammers <ch@lathspell.de> writes:
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:43:01 +0200
> Kent Boortz <kent@mysql.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> * Disk Data: Important Change: It is no longer possible on
>> 32-bit systems to issue statements appearing to create Disk
>> Data log files or data files greater than 4 GB in size.
>> (Trying to create log files or data files larger than 4 GB on
>> 32-bit systems led to unrecoverable data node failures; such
>> statements now fail with NDB error 1515.)
>> (Bug#29186: http://bugs.mysql.com/29186)
>
> According to the patches I would assume that this only affects people
> using the NDB cluster engine but from your notes I would think that
> even my old MyISAM tables are affected.
>
> I do have *.MYD files as big as 15GB on a 32bit system and guess
> that I'm not the only one.
>
> Could you clarify that on the next release notes?
Yes, this is only about NDB, but you are right this could have
been made more clear.
I have forwarded your comment, thanks,
kent