On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 09:16:43AM -0500, Speaks, Chuck W. wrote: > Is there a 2GB individual file limit in RH Linux? We are going to a RH > 7.1/Oracle 9i RAC configuration and some sources are telling us that there > is a 2GB file limitation in Linux. Is this true? We have many database > files greater than 2GB and need to know if we need to start splitting the > files up. Any information would be appreciated.
Hopefully somebody else can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that ext2 on a 2.2 kernel has a 2GB limit. 7.1 should allow you to run the 2.4 kernel and I expect you'll be safe. Here's a test from my 7.1 system: [root@www ewilts]# dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/backups/foo.dmp count=2500M <I did a ^C after it got big enough> 5859253+0 records in 5859253+0 records out [root@www ewilts]# ls -lh /mnt/backups/foo.dmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.8G Mar 19 12:54 /mnt/backups/foo.dmp [root@www ewilts]# df -T /mnt/backups Filesystem Type 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb1 ext2 9614116 6070724 3055020 67% /mnt/backups [root@www ewilts]# uname -r 2.4.9-31 [root@www ewilts]# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf) So...if Oracle doesn't do anything special, you should be ok. ext2 certainly isn't complaining (for me anyway). -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
