[http://www.blogger.com/profile/08993510241119917712 kabel] said…
Wow. This post could not have been more timely. I have a (legacy) server with a large (600G) InnoDB tablespace that is slightly corrupted. A new machine has been rotated into production while I clean up this monster, but you just saved me a lot of heartache with the fatal lock timeout catch. It’s probably going to end up being a incremental table dump and restore.