Anyone know this is a must?
Or can I ignore it on small installations?
Cheers
Albert
AFAIK, Barracuda format it's a must, the differences about these 2 row formats it's explained here:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/innodb-file-format.html
If you don't convert your tables, the primary risk it's about the clipping of the values in some fields, which cannot store long variable-length data.
BTW the correct conversion direction is "Antelope to Barracuda..." and in the admin/moodleadmin directory you should find all the cli tools needed to check/fix your database engine/format.
As per moodle's requirements, its a recommended option and not required. Will come handy when restoring/backing up large courses. Almost 80% cases wont even need it, but it annoys me to see amber colored warnings on moodle environment, therefore I convert them.
OK thanks
Does anyone know at what stage this was required as you are probably aware I am doing a march from 1.9.18 > 1.9.19 > 2.2.11 > 2.3.11 >2.7 > 2.9
Albert
My 2.7 started showing up on version update, so expect 2.7 onwards as 2.7 remains LTS version, so development work will be done on it until 2017 May I think, rest are only security maintained.