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by roncohen 4473 days ago
Did anyone actually care to see if that data can be read back? :)

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/blackhole-storage-en...

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Unix admins have been using a far better technology for decades: Store in /dev/null, extract from dev/random. The write speeds are just as fast, but you will eventually get your results back. It is said that it'd be quicker to extract the next Game of Thrones novel from this system than to wait for George R R Martin to finish writing it.
This is hilarious - it would have saved me days of work. Here is the GIST with my step by step. https://gist.github.com/ivansmf/6ec2197b69d1b7b26153
The BLACKHOLE storage engine supports all kinds of indexes.

Best part of that page.