Re: Volume Managers in Linux

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
05 Nov 1998 20:08:35 +0100


In article <199811050830.JAA17599@pcrz64.HRZ.Uni-Marburg.DE>,
"Thomas Gebhardt" <gebhardt@HRZ.Uni-Marburg.DE> writes:
> Hi,
>>
>> You sure need big file support bug i think big file support is something
>> for BIG SERVERS serving Databases with >2GB Data volume. This is
>> 5000 serves in the World - End users you have millions nowerdays.
>>

> There is a bunch of apps in computational chemistry that need very
> large temporary files. I had several questions from users who hit
> the 2GB file limit.

I solved a similar problem by writing a small glue library that maps
IO operations to multiple files.The principle is simple:just keep track
of the seek offset and use offset>>31 as an index into a fd table.
Not pretty, but works.

-Andi

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