Today, I have spent a couple of hours attempting to do some analysis on a large table. I say attempting, because every time I tried to add an index to the table after importing it, MySQL would crap out, and CHECK TABLE would report got error: 22 when reading datafile. Really weird stuff! Luckily for me, I managed to track down the cause, so I'm writing it down for the next time I run into this difficult to solve problem.

On Monday afternoon, I upgraded my work machine's Linux install to Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx). I've been working in Windows mostly for a the last few months, and keeping all my MySQL data in a TrueCrypt volume as sometimes I need to hold customer data, and we can't store it in plain text.