On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 03:57, Greg Copeland wrote: > > Are there any filesystems in common use (not including windows ones) that > > don't support >32-bit filesizes? > > > > Linux (ext2) I know supports by default at least to 2TB (2^32 x 512bytes), > > probably much more. What about the BSDs? XFS? etc > > > > Ext2 & 3 should be okay. XFS (very sure) and JFS (reasonably sure) > should also be okay...IIRC. NFS and SMB are probably problematic, but I > can't see anyone really wanting to do this.
Hmm. Whereas I can't see many people putting their database files on an NFS mount, I can readily see them using pg_dump to one, and pg_dump is the program where large files are really likely to be needed. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C ======================================== "Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man." Luke 21:36 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
