On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 02:37:02PM +0000, Ged Haywood wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Jim Morrison [Mailinglists] wrote:
> 
> > Sorry this is a little off topic...  Is there a size limit on DBM's? (Or
> > Linux files for that matter.. )
> [snip]
> > Thing is I'm getting a "write error" and it seems to always happen when
> > the DBM gets to 2.0Gb .. 
> [snip]
> >  Linux hope 2.4.7-10 #1 Thu Sep 6 16:46:36 EDT 2001 i686 unknown
> 

Actually, I finally had to upgrade to 2.4.17 (or .19) and custom compile the
kernel to get this to work.  I had a similar problem with mysql files
being 12GB.

I forget exactly the steps, but if you hunt around in the kernel configurator
I'm sure it'll show up...  :)

Rob

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