tell me about it. not the solaris bug but the NT 4gb bug.
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Niall Litchfield
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"Knut Talman" <knut.talman_at_mytoys.de> wrote in message
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> Niall Litchfield wrote:
> >
> > I think Howards point wasn't that you might never want files greater
than
> > 2gb , but that you would not want DATAfiles greater than 2gb in size.
>
> I know, I just wanted to add some real life experience about the 2GB
filesize
> limit (my datafiles are all 2000M). Even on 64 bit machines I tend to use
less
> than 2GB. I still can remember the bug in 8.0.5 on Solaris when a file was
> larger than 2GB. The block which was at the 2GB position was corrupt. Not
always
> but often.
>
> Regards,
>
> Knut
Received on Fri Jun 28 2002 - 08:26:34 CDT
