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How do I activate XtraDB to replace InnoDB? I have searched this website and Percona and have not found this question or answer. I have a clean, rpm install on openSuse 11.3 (x86_64) of mariadb-5.1.51-8.1.x86_64. I copied over /etc/my.cnf which works with MySQL 5.1.43sp1. It has several options like innodb_file_per_table under section [mysqld], yet when I try to run "mysql_install_db --user=mysql", I get errors for every InnoDB option like: [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: unknown option '--innodb_file_per_table'
mysql_install_db disables innodb (xtradb) when installing system tables.
The easiest way to get rid of the warnings is to prefix the innodb options with 'loose-'. This will allow mysqld to start even if innodb is not enabled.
The other option is to use mysql_install_db with the --no-defaults option.
mysql_install_db disables innodb (xtradb) when installing system tables.
You can simply comment out innodb-specific options, run mysql_install_db and uncomment them back.
Or you can run mysql_install_db with --no-defaults.
Perhaps, if you would've copied over your my.cnf after running mysql_install_db you would've never had this problem at all.