SELECT @@have_symlink; @@have_symlink DISABLED CREATE TABLE t1(a INT, KEY(a)) ENGINE=InnoDB DATA DIRECTORY '$MYSQL_TMP_DIR' INDEX DIRECTORY '$MYSQL_TMP_DIR'; Warnings: Warning 1618 DATA DIRECTORY option ignored Note 1618 INDEX DIRECTORY option ignored DROP TABLE t1; CREATE TABLE t1(a INT, KEY(a)) ENGINE=InnoDB; ALTER TABLE t1 DATA DIRECTORY '$MYSQL_TMP_DIR' INDEX DIRECTORY '$MYSQL_TMP_DIR'; Warnings: Warning 1618 DATA DIRECTORY option ignored Warning 1618 INDEX DIRECTORY option ignored SHOW CREATE TABLE t1; Table Create Table t1 CREATE TABLE `t1` ( `a` int(11) DEFAULT NULL, KEY `a` (`a`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_uca1400_ai_ci DROP TABLE t1; # restart: --symbolic-links CREATE TABLE t1(a INT PRIMARY KEY, b INT) ENGINE=InnoDB DATA DIRECTORY '$MYSQL_TMP_DIR' INDEX DIRECTORY '$MYSQL_TMP_DIR/other'; Warnings: Note 1618 INDEX DIRECTORY option ignored CREATE TABLE t2(a INT PRIMARY KEY, b INT) ENGINE=InnoDB DATA DIRECTORY '$MYSQL_TMP_DIR' INDEX DIRECTORY '$MYSQL_TMP_DIR'; TRUNCATE TABLE t1; TRUNCATE TABLE t2; # restart ALTER TABLE t1 FORCE, ALGORITHM=INPLACE; ALTER TABLE t2 FORCE, ALGORITHM=COPY; OPTIMIZE TABLE t1; Table Op Msg_type Msg_text test.t1 optimize note Table does not support optimize, doing recreate + analyze instead test.t1 optimize status OK t1.ibd t2.ibd DROP TABLE t2; RENAME TABLE t1 TO t2; ALTER TABLE t2 ADD UNIQUE INDEX(b), RENAME TO t3; Warnings: Warning 1618 DATA DIRECTORY option ignored ALTER TABLE t3 RENAME TO t2; ALTER TABLE t2 DROP INDEX b, RENAME TO t1; Warnings: Warning 1618 DATA DIRECTORY option ignored ALTER TABLE t1 CHANGE b c INT; Warnings: Warning 1618 DATA DIRECTORY option ignored ALTER TABLE t1 CHANGE c b INT NOT NULL; Warnings: Warning 1618 DATA DIRECTORY option ignored t1.ibd TRUNCATE TABLE t1; DROP TABLE t1;