THanks everyone for all your help! Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pete Harlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David T-G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "mysql users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Steve Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 4:16 PM Subject: Re: Hardware Raid and 2 Gig Limit
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 05:44:02AM -0500, David T-G wrote: > > % > > % Does the 2 Gig file size limit on Linux get broken when I have a hardware > > % raid controller? > > > > The limit applies only to ext2 filesystems, and not all of them at that; > > ext3 and reiserfs (and others) can happily write much larger files. > > The 2GB filesize limit was due to glibc and the linux kernel, not the > ext2 filesystem. Any linux distro from the past year or so should be > able to handle >2GB files on any filesystem. > > Hardware raid is invisible to Linux, so won't affect the maximum > usable filesize. > > --Pete -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
