This section describes how MySQL responds to disk-full errors (such as 「no space left on device」), and to quota-exceeded errors (such as 「write failed」 or 「user block limit reached」).
This section is relevant for writes to
MyISAM tables. It also applies for writes
to binary log files and binary log index file, except that
references to 「row」 and 「record」
should be understood to mean 「event.」
When a disk-full condition occurs, MySQL does the following:
It checks once every minute to see whether there is enough space to write the current row. If there is enough space, it continues as if nothing had happened.
Every 10 minutes it writes an entry to the log file, warning about the disk-full condition.
To alleviate the problem, you can take the following actions:
To continue, you only have to free enough disk space to insert all records.
To abort the thread, you must use mysqladmin kill. The thread is aborted the next time it checks the disk (in one minute).
Other threads might be waiting for the table that caused the disk-full condition. If you have several 「locked」 threads, killing the one thread that is waiting on the disk-full condition allows the other threads to continue.
Exceptions to the preceding behavior are when you use
REPAIR TABLE or OPTIMIZE
TABLE or when the indexes are created in a batch
after LOAD DATA INFILE or after an
ALTER TABLE statement. All of these
statements may create large temporary files that, if left to
themselves, would cause big problems for the rest of the
system. If the disk becomes full while MySQL is doing any of
these operations, it removes the big temporary files and mark
the table as crashed. The exception is that for ALTER
TABLE, the old table is left unchanged.
