Re: [HACKERS] Linux Largefile Support In Postgresql RPMS

On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 03:57, Greg Copeland wrote:
> > Are there any filesystems in common use (not including windows ones) that
> > don't support >32-bit filesizes?
> >
> > Linux (ext2) I know supports by default at least to 2TB (2^32 x 512bytes),
> > probably much more. What about the BSDs? XFS? etc
> >
>
> Ext2 & 3 should be okay. XFS (very sure) and JFS (reasonably sure)
> should also be okay...IIRC. NFS and SMB are probably problematic, but I
> can't see anyone really wanting to do this.

Hmm. Whereas I can't see many people putting their database files on an
NFS mount, I can readily see them using pg_dump to one, and pg_dump is
the program where large files are really likely to be needed.

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