Windows Server 2012 R2 / Windows 10 Enterprise

An easy workaround seem to be to create a symbolic link (with mklink) pointing to the UNC path, and use it as datadir.

Can you attach the full error log , please? Just for my curiosity, why would you use remote SMB pathfor the database? That seems a lot of network and SMB overhead, for every IO

I'm able to actually start database, if I put files on (local) share.
Yes there is a couple of ERRORs that should be better WARNINGs, but it starts ok, and I'm able to create tables, insert data, etc.
kaiklue, why do you think it deserved a "Blocker" status? Do I miss anything, something else does not work, apart from extra messages?
I downgraded its prio for the time being, until there is an explanation

This is what I got.

2019-12-12  0:44:29 0 [Note] Plugin 'FEEDBACK' is disabled.

2019-12-12  0:44:29 0 [Note] InnoDB: Loading buffer pool(s) from \\workpc\work\10.4\xxx\sql\data\ib_buffer_pool

2019-12-12  0:44:29 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: Operating system error number 3 in a file operation.

2019-12-12  0:44:29 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: The error means the system cannot find the path specified.

2019-12-12  0:44:29 0 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '::'.

2019-12-12  0:44:29 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: File \\.\\\workpc\work: 'CreateFile()' returned OS error 203.

2019-12-12  0:44:29 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: Operating system error number 3 in a file operation.

2019-12-12  0:44:29 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: The error means the system cannot find the path specified.

2019-12-12  0:44:29 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: File \\.\\\workpc\work: 'CreateFile()' returned OS error 203.

2019-12-12  0:44:29 0 [Note] InnoDB: Buffer pool(s) load completed at 191212  0:44:29

2019-12-12  0:44:29 0 [Note] Reading of all Master_info entries succeeded

2019-12-12  0:44:29 0 [Note] Added new Master_info '' to hash table

2019-12-12  0:44:29 0 [Note] mysqld: ready for connections.

Version: '10.4.11-MariaDB-debug'  socket: ''  port: 3306  Source distribution

Thanks for the feedback.

I attached the errorlog.

Yes, the database is starting. Removing the status "blocker" is ok.

Can you tell me more about the error and why this error is not cirtical. What is the cause of the error-message?

I noticed that the ticket is now in the status "closed" and that there will be an fix on 10.4.12. Can you tell me more about the fix?

errorlog.txt

The Innodb tries to find out what is the sector size on the disk, and whether it is on SSD.
(It is used for optimization, e.g if your disk sectors size and innodb_page_size are both 4K, then doublewrite buffer is not used for writes, because the writes are atomic).

To achieve that, Innodb tries to open the volume where file is on (which would be like, C:\ for datadir on local disk). But for the UNC, it can't, thus the error message.

But there is no big tragedy, if it can't find out about sector size or SSD, then it falls back to defaults.
I just suppressed the error message, for the UNC, because it does not make much sense to present it, error should only be written for real problems, which is here not the case.

Thanks for the detailed explanation