Installing and starting storage nodes
Storage nodes within a MySQL Cluster store all the data either in memory or on disk; they store indexes in memory and conduct a significant portion of the SQL query processing. The single-threaded storage node process is called ndbd and either this or the multi-threaded version (ndbdmt) must be installed and executed on each storage node.
Getting ready
From the download page at http://dev.mysql.com, all files for MySQL Cluster for RedHat and CentOS 5 can be found in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RPM section. It is recommended that the following two RPMs should be installed on each storage node:
- Cluster storage engine basic tools (this contains the actual storage node process)—
MySQL-Cluster-gpl-tools-7.0.6-0.rhel5.x86_64.rpm ...
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