2GB limit?

[Pedro M. Rodrigues]

  They won't tell you. For instance, they include nfs and raid 
patches in the stable distribution, among other patches.


Pedro Rodrigues

On 27 Jan 00, at 12:32, Gene Harris wrote:

> 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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