[arch-dev-public] WARNING: Update to FluxBB 1.4.1

[Dan McGee]

On Thursday, July 29, 2010, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:42:24 +0200, Pierre Schmitz
> <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have finished my preparation for the FluxBB update. The whole concept
>> can be found at my profile page:
>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Pierre#FluxBB_1.4_Upgrade This
>> will take about 3 hours. The update script itself run for more than two
>> hours (assuming the server is similar in speed as my desktop). I also
>> need to try to repair some previous failed conversions.
>>
>> If you like to join me or see the current status visit #archlinux-dev
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Pierre
>
> The import and convert of the db might take some more time. Somehow
> disc i/o on gudrun is extreme slow. E.g. the import of the db dump is
> still running and I guess in the end it will finish in about an hour or
> more. On my local desktop this took one or two minutes... (or maybe
> innodb is 100 times slower than myisam)
>
> So be patient; forums are hopefully back online by tomorrow. :-)

Well MyISAM is shit if you care about data integrity or foreign keys
or constraints, so yes it is slower on InnoDB but it shouldn't be 100x
slower.

Without knowing how you're doing this I can't be of much help and I
can't get to a real machine until later tonight.

-Dan