Re: 2GB limit?

[Pedro M. Rodrigues]

  Well, there is something fishy there. In any stable linux kernel the 
maximum file size is 2GB, limited at the VFS layer. I can only 
imagine that a) Redhat patched their kernel with some LFS (large 
file support) patches that were around b) DB2 is either raw 
accessing disk devices or spreading tables in several files (i'm 
inclined to the later).

Regards,

Pedro Rodrigues

On 27 Jan 00, at 9:42, Gene Harris wrote:

> There is a 2GB limit on file sizes under NFS2.  I wonder if the
> original author is thinking of this limit?  I have just in the last
> two weeks, completed an 8.4GB database in DB2 under RedHat 6.1 with no
> problems, so I know, at least for RedHat 6.1 that the limit is not
> 2GB.
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> On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 [e-mail] wrote:
> 
> > hi,
> >   i believe it is somewhere in the order of 2 terabyte..
> > At 09:52 AM 1/27/00 +0200, Catalin BOIE wrote:
> > >Hi!
> > >
> > >I need to setup a machine with 256MB RAM (maybe 512MB) for a
> > >database server. I will have a database with size more than 2GB.
> > >Can I do it with kernel 2.2.x? What is the limit? Do you recommand
> > >another type of hardware (Alpha etc.)?
> > >
> > >Thanks!
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