Re: MySQL 4.1.3-beta on ODS2 volume

From: Rich Jordan (jordan_at_ccs4vms.com)
Date: 07/12/04 

Date: 12 Jul 2004 09:35:32 -0700

jf.pieronne@laposte.net wrote in message news:<ccodgh$7aj$1@news-reader4.wanadoo.fr>...
> It has been reported that initial kit of MySQL 4.1.3 can't run an ODS-2 volume
> (during startup of innodb MySQL server try to create a file named
> innodb.status.id where id is a number).
> A new kit is, now, online which fix this problem, the offending file has been
> renamed innodb_startup.id).
>
> Sorry for any inconvience.
>
>
> Jean-François

Thanks for the effort, Jean-François. It'll be a while before I have
time to try this, but I have a question.

When I used Unix (BSD 4.2/4.3 with csh, SunOS 4.x, etc) there seemed
to be common use of prefix dot suffix on those systems; I don't
remember ever seeing multiple dots, though the use of other
characters, mixed case, and longer than VMS allowed filenames was
happening. Other systems (CDC Cyber NOS, Harris VOS, VMS, DOS, Apple,
Macintosh, etc.) all seemed to mostly follow the prefix dot suffix de
facto standard. Its been a long time, so perhaps I'm misremembering
(though the SunOS and CDC Cyber NOS notes I still have don't show
anything different).

Now it seems like most every time there's a problem with unix code and
filenames in ports its because of profligate usage of multi-dot
filenames (why?), long varying case names that differ only in case (so
case preserving is not good enough; you have to use case sensitive),
inclusion of characters that don't work for file/pathnames in other
file systems (why?)?

So what is happening out there in unix-land that all these things seem
to have become so depressingly common?

Rich

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