NICE! Thanks. -----Original Message----- Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 11:57 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
It's a combo problem between oracle and linux. When Linux first implemented largefile support, many of the traditional linux apps were not aware of the concept of >2GB files and were using 32-bit offsets for file pointer storage. So, as a workaround, 32- and 64-bit versions of the various file operation calls were made to specify whether a 32-bit or 64-bit offset should be returned, as well as specifying a flag O_LARGEFILE that could be sent to the traditional open() that indicated the application was largefile aware. When an application is compiled, you can specify to the compiler that you want it to be 64-bit aware and the 64-bit versions of things like open and seek will be used, or the code can use the O_LARGEFILE flag in open(). The end result of this is that while linux is >2GB aware, oracle 8.1.7 is not quite entirely. I bet that the chunk of code that opens a datafile for traditional access in 8.1.7 is 64-bit aware, while the code that grows the file is not. Thanks, Matt -- Matthew Zito GridApp Systems Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 646-220-3551 Phone: 212-358-8211 x 359 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Jan Pruner > Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 11:55 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: Re: ??? Linux/Oracle 8.1.7 2GB file size limit ??? > > > I think it is the limitation of Linux, not Oracle. > Use LVM and don't worry about file size limit. :-) > > JP > ----- Original Message ----- > To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 5:40 PM > > > > I've just been informed that there is a 2GB datafile size limit with > Oracle 8.1.7 on Linux... PERIOD. This despite the fact that > we've had files in excess of this for some time and they work > just fine. The problem occurs when the autoextend "feature" > reaches the 2GB threshhold. Of course, Oracle didn't tell me > this until after about 4 days of back and forth testing for > them. (There is no such O/S file size limit.) I've reviewed > the Linux release notes, the Linux install guide, the Linux > admin guide and the contents of $ORACLE_HOME/relnotes and I > don't find any such limitation in the documentation. Did I > miss it? Can anyone find any such published limitation in the > docs? Is this a secret? > > > > > > Peeved at Oracle... AGAIN, > > Steve Orr > > -- > > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > > -- > > Author: Orr, Steve > > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web > hosting services > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the > > name of mailing list you want to be removed from). 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