diff --git a/src/docs/user/cluster/cluster_databases.diviner b/src/docs/user/cluster/cluster_databases.diviner index a175c6e209..156ede4e6e 100644 --- a/src/docs/user/cluster/cluster_databases.diviner +++ b/src/docs/user/cluster/cluster_databases.diviner @@ -58,14 +58,11 @@ will use to connect to the replica database server the `REPLICATION CLIENT` privilege, Phorge's status console can give you more information about replica health and state. -**Copying Data to Replicas**: Phorge currently uses a mixture of MyISAM -and InnoDB tables, so it can be difficult to guarantee that a dump is wholly -consistent and suitable for loading into a replica because MySQL uses different -consistency mechanisms for the different storage engines. - -An approach you may want to consider to limit downtime but still produce a -consistent dump is to leave Phorge running but configured in read-only -mode while dumping: +**Copying Data to Replicas**: Phorge uses InnoDB tables if available. +Phorge still allows MyISAM for older database server software. + +An approach you may want to consider to limit downtime and produce a dump is +to leave Phorge running but configured in read-only mode while dumping: - Stop all the daemons. - Set `cluster.read-only` to `true` and deploy the new configuration. The