Bug #62373 multi-step unlink file to reduce IO load when deleting big innodb data file
Submitted: 7 Sep 2011 12:27 Modified: 7 Sep 2011 12:36
Reporter: xiaobin lin (OCA) Email Updates:
Status: Verified Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: InnoDB Plugin storage engine Severity:S4 (Feature request)
Version:5.1 OS:Any
Assigned to: Assigned Account CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: drop table, innodb_file_per_table, truncate, unlink

File: Maximum allowed size is 50MB.
Description:
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If the data you need to attach is more than 50MB, you should create a compressed archive of the data, split it to 50MB chunks, and upload each of them as a separate attachment.

To split a large file: