Re: 2.2.17-14enterprise nits

[teg redhat com (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)]

dsavage@peaknet.net writes:

> Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
> > "Robert G. 'Doc' Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net> writes:
> >
> > You still shouldn't use the enterprise kernel - the standard kernels
> > are intended for use with laptops, workstations and standard servers.
> >
> > The enterprise server enables use of huge amounts of memory (more than
> > 4 GB), turns off apm (you don't use that on your huge enterprise
> > database server anyway), enables SMP (which would have caused apm not
> > to work anyway) and a couple of other modifications for _big_
> > servers. This is not a kernel aimed at laptops in any way.
> 
> I wish this definition of the term "enterprise" could be posted to the updates
> ftp site (perhaps as a README file???). I installed the enterprise RPM hoping
> I'd get support for files >2G

It adds that as well.

> I'm reminded of a time years ago when Seagate was making 80M hard drives but
> MS-DOS 3.3 couldn't make FAT partitions larger than 32M. Perhaps this is the
> right time for Red Hat to raise the proverbial bar again and eliminate the 2G
> file size limit in all of its distribution RPMs.

It should be mostly gone in the next release of Red Hat Linux - RHL 7
has library support, and applications are compiled with proper
options. The kernel doesn't support it, though. 

The next release (currently in its second public beta, Wolverine) adds
a 2.4 kernel, and thus supports such files (of course, some programs
can't support it as it just allows you to address big files - the x86
is still a 32 bit CPU, with the limitations this implies).

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.