[rhn-users] 2GB Filesize Limit

[Todd Warner]

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Charith Perera wrote:

> Marco,
> 
> Thanks for the reply. I'll dig a bit into your suggestion.
> 
> Charith.

Right. The OS may be able to handle 2GB files, but not certain
applications. The details of that are beyond the scope of this mailing
list though.

> On Wednesday 01 September 2004 2:03 pm, Marco Wertejuk wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > | I was wondering if the Redhat Enterprise kernels have the patches that
> > | allow files larger than 2GB to be created. We're about to set up a
> > | database on a Linux machine running RHEL 3 AS using the ext3 filesystem.
> >
> > according to my experience with RHEL it's going to work
> > if your application supports it (i.e. linked to the
> > correct libraries).
> >
> > Most tools like binutils don't have problems handling
> > 2GB or greater files but if the application doesn't
> > support them, you'll get problems.
> >
> > You surely have to test it though I think you should not
> > experience problems as rhel3 certified databases should
> > handle this correctly.
> 
> 
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