Re: 2GB file size limit in Solaris?

From: William P. Mitchell <bill_mitchell_at_pleasantco.com>
Date: 23 Jul 1998 15:43:13 GMT
Message-ID: <01bdb651$4d411900$8059a8c0@04635>

Solaris 2.6 does indeed support files larger than 2GB, but many Unix utilities do not (e.g. compress, gzip, etc.). So you may be able to create one, but working with it could be another matter. Anyway, smaller files tend to work better for parallelizing backup/restores, etc.

bill

Tim Romano <tim_at_ot.com> wrote in article <35AA7A33.6B3989F3_at_ot.com>...
> A company for whom I'm developing some applications on
> 7.3/NT just purchased a Sun Sparc which will eventually
> replace the NT box as the Oracle server. The vendor
> installing the Sun and setting up Oracle has claimed that
> there's a 2GB file size limit under Solaris? Is that so?
>
> Thanks,
> Tim Romano
>
Received on Thu Jul 23 1998 - 10:43:13 CDT