[TYPO3-english] vhosting and ibdata

[Jacob Rasmussen]

Katja Lampela wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Now that my TYPO3 installations are using innodb, there is this one file
> in my virtual hosting system, ibdata1 that has grown to very many Gbits.
>
> Any of you have any knowledge and recommendations how this file should
> be treated/configured in future installations or is it just ok like that?
>

Hi Katja,

Innodb is by default configured to use one big file for data and log, 
but you can configure Innodb to use a tablespace file for each table:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/innodb-multiple-tablespaces.html

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Regards

Jacob Rasmussen
Certified TYPO3 Integrator