Re: quick question

[James Bourne <jbourne@mtroyal.ab.ca>]

On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Ian Ballantyne wrote:

> File sizes on 32 bit linux are 2Gb.  Although I have heard there are ways 
> around this, I don't know what they are, or if they even are real.  64 bit 
> Linux does not have this limit.  
> 

Linux 2.4.17 (an newer at least, likely older 2.4 kernels) and glibc 2.2.4 
(again at least likely any 2.2, these are what I ran this test on to confirm)
do support large files (2TB) under ext3 and other filesystems.

I think this is a limitation of gdbm..  That's what I need confirmation of.

bash# dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1024k count=2064
2064+0 records in
2064+0 records out
bash# ls -l testfile
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     2164260864 Jul 24 16:07 testfile
bash# uname -a
Linux hostname 2.4.17 #1 SMP Sun Dec 23 22:51:29 MST 2001 i686 unknown
bash# rpm -q glibc
glibc-2.2.4-24
bash# dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile seek=2064 bs=1024k count=512 
512+0 records in
512+0 records out
bash# ls -l testfile
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     2701131776 Jul 24 16:09 testfile

Regards,
James Bourne

> Ian
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 24 July 2002 22:35, James Bourne wrote:
> > While I'm investigating other avenues...
> >
> > Can I confirm with anyone that the file size on Linux 32bit for the
> > back-ldbm using gdbm is 2G?
> >
> > It would seem we've hit this on our production server but I wanted
> > to confirm this is the actual limit.
> >
> > Regards
> > James Bourne
> 

-- 
James Bourne, Supervisor Data Centre Operations
Mount Royal College, Calgary, AB, CA
www.mtroyal.ab.ca

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