I thought the saying 'mysql is a filesys ... / 2012-09-10

I thought the saying 'mysql is a filesystem with an sql interface' was a bit over the top, but it is exactly right, when you have a separate filesystem for /var/lib/mysql it gets its own lost+found, and the visible result in the mysql client ...

mysql> show databases;
+---------------------+
| Database            |
+---------------------+
| information_schema  |
| #mysql50#lost+found |
| mysql               |
| test                |
+---------------------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)