Originally Posted by
DrByte
Shouldn't be much of a problem. Granted, some (rarely changed, non-transactional data) tables would yield no benefit by the conversion, and would increase overhead.
Note that switching to InnoDB will require backups to be generated via a dump and therefore filesystem backups would not be usable for db restores. Granted, if the site is that high in traffic then they probably couldn't have used filesystem restores in the first place. Relying on filesystem backups/restores for db data is never a good idea anyway. I'm just pointing out that they'll be impossible when using innodb.
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