[rhn-users] 2GB Filesize Limit

[Charith Perera]

Marco,

Thanks for the reply. I'll dig a bit into your suggestion.

Charith.



On Wednesday 01 September 2004 2:03 pm, Marco Wertejuk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> | I was wondering if the Redhat Enterprise kernels have the patches that
> | allow files larger than 2GB to be created. We're about to set up a
> | database on a Linux machine running RHEL 3 AS using the ext3 filesystem.
>
> according to my experience with RHEL it's going to work
> if your application supports it (i.e. linked to the
> correct libraries).
>
> Most tools like binutils don't have problems handling
> 2GB or greater files but if the application doesn't
> support them, you'll get problems.
>
> You surely have to test it though I think you should not
> experience problems as rhel3 certified databases should
> handle this correctly.