All, A new comment ( http://kb.askmonty.org/v/about-xtradb#comment_76 ) was just posted on the Knowledgebase on the About XtraDB page ( http://kb.askmonty.org/v/about-xtradb ). The text of the comment is: ------------------------------------- How do I activate XtraDB to replace InnoDB? I have searched this website and Percona and have not found this question or answer. I have a clean, rpm install on openSuse 11.3 (x86_64) of mariadb-5.1.51-8.1.x86_64. I copied over /etc/my.cnf which works with MySQL 5.1.43sp1. It has several options like innodb_file_per_table under section [mysqld], yet when I try to run "mysql_install_db --user=mysql", I get errors for every InnoDB option like: [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: unknown option '--innodb_file_per_table' ------------------------------------- Any thoughts or comments from the list? Please reply here or directly to the comment in the Knowledgebase. Thanks! -- Daniel Bartholomew MariaDB - http://mariadb.org Monty Program - http://montyprogram.com AskMonty Knowledgebase - http://kb.askmonty.org