2GB limit?

[Gene Harris]

Well, it doesn't smell fishy here!  *grin*

I am running RedHat Professional 6.1 with Secure Web Server right out of
the box.  They didn't say anything about patches.  And I seriously doubt
that DB2 is using raw disk access on their personal edition.

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On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Pedro M. Rodrigues wrote:

> 
>   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 dreamwvr en dreamwvr.com 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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