Re: working with datafile > 2Gb in HadHat 7.3

If you can't do it in hardware, do it in software. Right?

ltiu

Ji, Richard wrote:

>There is no such hardware limitation like that. Those are the OS i.e.
>software limitations. For instance, the 2gb file size limit is because of
>the
>32 bit OS, actually, to be more specific, it's the 32 bit file system.
>You can have a 32bit OS kernel, but if your file system supports 64bit, then
>you can support >2gb files. Same thing for the memory.
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>Richard Ji
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>OK. I stand corrected. You do need third party tools though. But I
>suppose engineers can always hack their way through hardware limitations
>to make thing work. Like the >4GB memory limit of intels - this is not
>more since I believe Windows 2K and XP have this feature(in software?)
>where it can access greater than 4GB memory..
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>Philip Douglass wrote:
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>>Uh... don't think so! -- we're running UnixWare 7 on Intel hardware
>>(Xeons) and large file support is a matter of enabling the largefiles
>>option on the Veritas (VxFS) filesystem. That being said, I only use 2Gig
>>datafiles because it seems foolhardy to me to use >2Gig datafiles unless
>>you have an obvious need for them. And if you do, then test it a lot! And
>>make sure all of your programs support large files too (some versions of
>>tar/cpio/gzip don't)
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>>-- Philip
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>>Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 2:43 PM
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>>It doesn't really matter what OS you have. Intel hardware can only
>>handle 2Gb files sizes max. Even if the hardware can support large
>>files, it is still recommended that you do not have large datafiles. You
>>need to partition your tablespaces into multiple datafiles. This
>>facilitates backups and restores and you can put the datafiles into
>>different hard drives increasing i/o performance.
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>>ltiu
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>>Adriano Freire wrote:
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>>>Ok ltiu,
>>>REDHAT 7.3 kernel-2.4.18-10
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>>>>What's HadHat 7.3?
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>>>>A new Linux distro pattered after RedHat 7.3?
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>>>>ltiu
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>>>>Adriano Freire wrote:
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>>>>>Gurus,
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>>>>>I've some problems with datafiles > 2Gb in HadHat 7.3. I'm using
>>>>>datafile type ext3 and
>>>>>when i try create a datafile with 2Gb the database is catching.
>>>>>Anybody have the some problem?
>>>>>any suggestion?
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>>Adriano.
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