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Re: Limit MySQL database sizes



> Oh, please NEVER use system quotas on mysql databases! This leads to
> severe data corruption as mysql has much data in cache that does not get
> written to disk once the quota is exceeded!
>
> As long as there's no way for a user to get the actual used size the
> only thing you can do is limiting him manually by some sort of mail
> remainder and extra fees.
>

But then how do all those "commercial" control panels, like Cpanel,
H-sphere, and others, do their "MySQL quota"?

Indeed those actually limit disk space size, but I have not heard about
data corruption...

Do they know something that we are missing?



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