Before commit 6112853cdab2770e92f9cfefdfef9c0a14b71cb7 in MySQL 4.1.1
introduced the parameter innodb_file_per_table, all InnoDB data was
written to the InnoDB system tablespace (often named ibdata1).
A serious design problem is that once the system tablespace has grown to
some size, it cannot shrink even if the data inside it has been deleted.
There are also other design problems, such as the server hang MDEV-29930
that should only be possible when using innodb_file_per_table=0 and
innodb_undo_tablespaces=0 (storing both tables and undo logs in the
InnoDB system tablespace).
The parameter innodb_change_buffering was deprecated
in commit b5852ffbeebc3000982988383daeefb0549e058a.
Starting with commit baf276e6d4a44fe7cdf3b435c0153da0a42af2b6
(MDEV-19229) the number of innodb_undo_tablespaces can be increased,
so that the undo logs can be moved out of the system tablespace
of an existing installation.
If all these things (tables, undo logs, and the change buffer) are
removed from the InnoDB system tablespace, the only variable-size
data structure inside it is the InnoDB data dictionary.
DDL operations on .ibd files was optimized in
commit 86dc7b4d4cfe15a2d37f8b5f60c4fce5dba9491d (MDEV-24626).
That should have removed any thinkable performance advantage of
using innodb_file_per_table=0.
Since there should be no benefit of setting innodb_file_per_table=0,
the parameter should be deprecated. Starting with MySQL 5.6 and
MariaDB Server 10.0, the default value is innodb_file_per_table=1.
Historically, InnoDB supported a buggy page checksum algorithm that did not
compute a checksum over the full page. Later, well before MySQL 4.1
introduced .ibd files and the innodb_file_per_table option, the algorithm
was corrected and the first 4 bytes of each page were redefined to be
a checksum.
The original checksum was so slow that an option to disable page checksum
was introduced for benchmarketing purposes.
The Intel Nehalem microarchitecture introduced the SSE4.2 instruction set
extension, which includes instructions for faster computation of CRC-32C.
In MySQL 5.6 (and MariaDB 10.0), innodb_checksum_algorithm=crc32 was
implemented to make of that. As that option was changed to be the default
in MySQL 5.7, a bug was found on big-endian platforms and some work-around
code was added to weaken that checksum further. MariaDB disables that
work-around by default since MDEV-17958.
Later, SIMD-accelerated CRC-32C has been implemented in MariaDB for POWER
and ARM and also for IA-32/AMD64, making use of carry-less multiplication
where available.
Long story short, innodb_checksum_algorithm=crc32 is faster and more secure
than the pre-MySQL 5.6 checksum, called innodb_checksum_algorithm=innodb.
It should have removed any need to use innodb_checksum_algorithm=none.
The setting innodb_checksum_algorithm=crc32 is the default in
MySQL 5.7 and MariaDB Server 10.2, 10.3, 10.4. In MariaDB 10.5,
MDEV-19534 made innodb_checksum_algorithm=full_crc32 the default.
It is even faster and more secure.
The default settings in MariaDB do allow old data files to be read,
no matter if a worse checksum algorithm had been used.
(Unfortunately, before innodb_checksum_algorithm=full_crc32,
the data files did not identify which checksum algorithm is being used.)
The non-default settings innodb_checksum_algorithm=strict_crc32 or
innodb_checksum_algorithm=strict_full_crc32 would only allow CRC-32C
checksums. The incompatibility with old data files is why they are
not the default.
The newest server not to support innodb_checksum_algorithm=crc32
were MySQL 5.5 and MariaDB 5.5. Both have reached their end of life.
A valid reason for using innodb_checksum_algorithm=innodb could have
been the ability to downgrade. If it is really needed, data files
can be converted with an older version of the innochecksum utility.
Because there is no good reason to allow data files to be written
with insecure checksums, we will reject those option values:
innodb_checksum_algorithm=none
innodb_checksum_algorithm=innodb
innodb_checksum_algorithm=strict_none
innodb_checksum_algorithm=strict_innodb
Furthermore, the following innochecksum options will be removed,
because only strict crc32 will be supported:
innochecksum --strict-check=crc32
innochecksum -C crc32
innochecksum --write=crc32
innochecksum -w crc32
If a user wishes to convert a data file to use a different checksum
(so that it might be used with the no-longer-supported
MySQL 5.5 or MariaDB 5.5, which do not support IMPORT TABLESPACE
nor system tablespace format changes that were made in MariaDB 10.3),
then the innochecksum tool from MariaDB 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5 or
MySQL 5.7 can be used.
Reviewed by: Thirunarayanan Balathandayuthapani
Also, apply the MDEV-17957 changes to encrypted page checksums,
and remove error message output from the checksum function,
because these messages would be useless noise when mariabackup
is retrying reads of corrupted-looking pages, and not that
useful during normal server operation either.
The error messages in fil_space_verify_crypt_checksum()
should be refactored separately.
Rewrite the test encryption.innodb-checksum-algorithm not to
require any restarts or re-bootstrapping, and to cover all
innodb_page_size combinations.
Test innodb.101_compatibility with all innodb_page_size combinations.
Problem was that checksum check resulted false positives that page is
both not encrypted and encryted when checksum_algorithm was
strict_none.
Encrypton checksum will use only crc32 regardless of setting.
buf_zip_decompress: If compression fails report a error message
containing the space name if available (not available during import).
And note if space could be encrypted.
buf_page_get_gen: Do not assert if decompression fails,
instead unfix the page and return NULL to upper layer.
fil_crypt_calculate_checksum: Use only crc32 method.
fil_space_verify_crypt_checksum: Here we need to check
crc32, innodb and none method for old datafiles.
fil_space_release_for_io: Allow null space.
encryption.innodb-compressed-blob is now run with crc32 and none
combinations.
Note that with none and strict_none method there is not really
a way to detect page corruptions and page corruptions after
decrypting the page with incorrect key.
New test innodb-checksum-algorithm to test different checksum
algorithms with encrypted, row compressed and page compressed
tables.
