Gerhard,
I may be a little late, but want to answer this.
> Is there anybody who prefers innodb for
> logging tables and would prefer to not change them to myisam?
Yes. At a large-scale site, InnoDB is much preferred. Our MySQL admin is working on a patchfile for
database.4.1.mysql that installs log tables as InnoDB by default for our installations.
I'm not sure this alters the conversation, but wanted to go on record.
- Ken Rickard
agentrickard