---- On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 16:23:01 +0200 Stuart Gathman 
<[email protected]> wrote ----




On 04/18/2018 04:28 AM, tim.green wrote:

Good morning,



I have an application that is around 10 gigabytes that I would like to package 
with rpm, it is mostly java EAR files and an application server.

Everything must be self-contained and run on each server it is installed on, 
however I have a problem with one part: the database.



The database is about 300 gigabytes in size, and so I am concerned about simply 
making an rpm out of it.


RPM will make a copy of that 300G as part of an update - the filesystem needs 
to have enough room. 





Unfortunately I don't have the space for another 300G. Also I am unsure now if 
it makes sense - some of the major benefits of rpms are lost if the data files 
are being constantly modified. It feels like something I want rpm to manage 
though, a-la-git-LFS. Maybe there could be an rpm-LFS :)



I will look at the data update application approach.



Regards,



tt





 RPM checks that - hopefully with 64-bit arithmetic. 

 

 Is RPM subject to ULIMIT?  Does it handle it gracefully if so? 

 

 I would go ahead and make an RPM initially - just to test rpm with large 
files.  Would the rpm work on a 32-bit system?  Does it give a graceful error 
if not?

 

 If the 300G rpm turns out to be impractical, you could make an RPM with a 
"data update" application that downloads and installs the data, verifying with 
sha256.

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