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@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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