Hello everybody, while I'm still working on the boundary project, I have tried to set up a local copy of the database according to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/The_Rails_Port The idea is to have a dynamic system as the boundary download file gets larger and larger.
I ran into disk space issues while populating the database. I have tried to populate the database with the non-us.osm.bz2 extract. Its size is only about 1/3 of the planet.osm. But it still took more than 38 GB of disk space before my disk definitely ran full. Also, it took osmosis more than 36 hours before I killed the still unfinished task. Is this normal? Even the uncompressed XML takes much less space. And I can't imagine that everybody else is using more than 120 GB of disk space for his local copy. As this is the first time I'm responsible for administrating the database, I might have made even a stupid mistake. So I would be grateful for any idea about this. Cheers, Roland _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
