| From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
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| To: | Andrew Sullivan <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info>, PostgresSQL General Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Linux Largefile Support In Postgresql RPMS |
| Date: | 2002-08-12 23:41:16 |
| Message-ID: | 20020813094116.B31846@svana.org |
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On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 11:30:36AM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> The problem is not just a system-level one, but a filesystem-level
> one. Enabling 64 bits by default might be dangerous, because a DBA
> might think "oh, it supports largefiles by default" and therefore not
> notice that the filesystem itself is not mounted with largefile
> support. But I suspect that the developers would welcome autoconfig
> patches if someone offered them.
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
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that can do binary
> arithmetic and those that can't.
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