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@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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