Eugene,
We recently ran into the 2GB limit on a file where updates to the file
generated errors and the offending {updated} groups were truncated. The
simplest solution was to RESIZE the file (not actually changing the
size, though) with the 64BIT option. This took about 8 minutes on a
semi-active [lunchtime, 100 user] system (making sure no one was using
the file in question!). The documentation implies that 64BIT is only
valid for dynamic files, however this is not the case, as it works fine
for regular hashed files. Note that 64BIT is also an option for
CREATE.FILE.
We have had no known problems with any linux utilities with files over
2GB, however some UV utilities (uvfixfile for sure) may not work with 64
bit files. (UV 10.1.4, Red Hat AS3.) As a matter of fact, the simplest
way to test if a file is 64 bit or not is to try uvfixfile on it- if it
fails, it is 64 bit! (as suggested by IBM tech support).
/Scott Ballinger
Pareto Corporation
Edmonds WA USA
206 713 6006
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Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 4:13 PM
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Subject: RE: [U2] Universe file size limits {Unclassified}
Eugene
UniVerse files can go over 2GB if they are created / resized as
"64-bit".
I have done this on UV 10.0 on Win2K3, it works!
You can also use UniVerse "distributed files" to partition your data so
that a set of less-than-2GB files appear as a single logical entity.
This is the approach we took rather than go 64-bit.
There is a deal of information about both these in the UniVerse
Reference Guide PDFs
Hope this helps
Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eugene Perry
> Sent: Thursday, 6 July 2006 10:10
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> Subject: [U2] Universe file size limits
>
> Hello,
>
> Does Universe have a file size limit? We are working on Universe 10.1
> on both NT and Linux based systems. It came up in a meeting today
> about files not being able to go over 2 Gigs. I was wondering if that
> is a Universe limit or a limit of the OS. I thought that new versions
> of Linux could now go over the
> 2 Gig limit on partitions.
>
> Thanks
>
> Eugene
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