Update: Apparently the master connection info gets cached in /var/lib/mysql/master.info so whenever you change the settings in my.cnf you need to remove it before you restart mysql.... Read More

I have a server where there are two RAID1 disks where the second disk is mounted on /mnt/data, having the MySQL database there would be great as it then would have a whole disk all by itself without having to share with other processes that read and write to the same disk. I/O is often the bottleneck and now we make sure it gets as good as it can be with the hardware we have.... Read More