Re: 2GB limit?

From: dreamwvr (dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com)
Date: Thu Jan 27 2000 - 12:11:30 EST


hi,
    not 'exactly' sure .. perhaps is being confused on the past circulated
issues on 2 Gig of RAM.. but then again only the poster knows for sure;-))
                                                       Best Regards,
                                                       dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com
 On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Gene Harris wrote:
> There is a 2GB limit on file sizes under NFS2. I wonder if the original
> author is thinking of this limit? I have just in the last two weeks,
> completed an 8.4GB database in DB2 under RedHat 6.1 with no problems, so I
> know, at least for RedHat 6.1 that the limit is not 2GB.
>
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> On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com wrote:
>
> > hi,
> > i believe it is somewhere in the order of 2 terabyte..
> > At 09:52 AM 1/27/00 +0200, Catalin BOIE wrote:
> > >Hi!
> > >
> > >I need to setup a machine with 256MB RAM (maybe 512MB) for a database
> > >server. I will have a database with size more than 2GB. Can I do it with
> > >kernel 2.2.x? What is the limit? Do you recommand another type of hardware
> > >(Alpha etc.)?
> > >
> > >Thanks!
> > >

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