Re: [TCLUG:17578] Partition: swap

["Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>]

I was mistaken.  I believe that there is a limit on file size of 2GB.  It
might be 1GB.  However, that really stinks for a commercial database.

Tom Veldhouse
veldy@veldy.net

----- Original Message -----
From: Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net>
To: <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:17578] Partition: swap


> the upper limit for ext2 is _not_ 2gig, ext2 is not _efficient_ over 4gig,
> but is still not a problem.. I have systems setup with 10-30gig ext2
> systems, and don't see any major problems.. this is why there are new
> filesystems in developemnt, including IBM jfs, SGI xfs, and ReiserFS.
>
> Thank You,
>         Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)
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> On Fri, 12 May 2000, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
>
> > Isn't that the upper limit for an ext2 file system?  When are they going
to
> > get past this?  This seems to be a nasty enterprise limitation that
other
> > modern operating systems don't seem to share.
> >
> > Tom Veldhouse
> > veldy@veldy.net
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <carls@agritech.com>
> > To: <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
> > Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 12:03 PM
> > Subject: Re: [TCLUG:17578] Partition: swap
> >
> >
> > > >ok.. I think I understand the question.. "what is the current limit
of
> > > >swap partition size in the 2.2 kernel"  I havn't checked on that
> > > >recently.. but I know it's atleast 256mb..
> > >
> > > I think someone made a 2GB swap partition as a demonstration, last
time
> > this
> > > subject came up...
> > >
> > > Carl Soderstrom
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