Options that make XtraDB tablespaces not compatible with MySQL

Fast checksums

Enabling innodb_fast_checksum will use more CPU-efficient algorithm, based on 4-byte words which can be beneficial for some workloads. Once enabled, turning it off will require table to be dump/imported again, since Percona Server will fail to start on data files created when innodb_fast_checksums was enabled.

In case you’ve migrated from Percona Server to MySQL you could get the “corrupted checksum” error message. In order to recover that table you’ll need to:

1. Reinstall Percona Server to read your tables that were created with fast checksums.
2. Dump the tables (or temporarily convert them to MyISAM).
3. Install stock MySQL (or at least disable fast checksums).
4. Restore the InnoDB tables (or convert back from MyISAM).

Page sizes other than 16KiB

This is controlled by variable innodb_page_size. Changing the page size for an existing database is not supported. Table will need to be dumped/imported again if compatibility with MySQL is required.

Relocation of the doublewrite buffer

Variable innodb_doublewrite_file provides an option to put the buffer on a dedicated disk in order to parallelize I/O activity on the buffer and on the tablespace. Only in case of crash recovery this variable cannot be changed, in all other cases it can be turned on/off without breaking the compatibility.