Return-Path: Received: from newsfeed.cts.com (newsfeed.cts.com [209.68.248.164]) by naude.co.za (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id g7TLE8627543 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 17:14:08 -0400 Received: from fatcity.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by newsfeed.cts.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id OAA61490; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:10:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by fatcity.com (26-Feb-2001/v1.0g-b72/bab) via UUCP id 004C34AE; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:58:45 -0800 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:58:45 -0800 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L X-Comment: Oracle RDBMS Community Forum X-Sender: ltiu Sender: root@fatcity.com Reply-To: ORACLE-L@fatcity.com Errors-To: ML-ERRORS@fatcity.com From: ltiu Subject: Re: working with datafile > 2Gb in HadHat 7.3 Organization: Fat City Network Services, San Diego, California X-ListServer: v1.0g, build 72; ListGuru (c) 1996-2001 Bruce A. Bergman Precedence: bulk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit OK. I stand corrected. You do need third party tools though. But I suppose engineers can always hack their way through hardware limitations to make thing work. Like the >4GB memory limit of intels - this is not more since I believe Windows 2K and XP have this feature(in software?) where it can access greater than 4GB memory.. Philip Douglass wrote: >Uh... don't think so! -- we're running UnixWare 7 on Intel hardware >(Xeons) and large file support is a matter of enabling the largefiles >option on the Veritas (VxFS) filesystem. That being said, I only use 2Gig >datafiles because it seems foolhardy to me to use >2Gig datafiles unless >you have an obvious need for them. And if you do, then test it a lot! And >make sure all of your programs support large files too (some versions of >tar/cpio/gzip don't) > >-- Philip > >----- Original Message ----- >To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" >Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 2:43 PM > > >It doesn't really matter what OS you have. Intel hardware can only >handle 2Gb files sizes max. Even if the hardware can support large >files, it is still recommended that you do not have large datafiles. You >need to partition your tablespaces into multiple datafiles. This >facilitates backups and restores and you can put the datafiles into >different hard drives increasing i/o performance. > >ltiu > >Adriano Freire wrote: > > > >>Ok ltiu, >>REDHAT 7.3 kernel-2.4.18-10 >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" >>Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 1:18 PM >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>What's HadHat 7.3? >>> >>>A new Linux distro pattered after RedHat 7.3? >>> >>>ltiu >>> >>>Adriano Freire wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>Gurus, >>>> >>>>I've some problems with datafiles > 2Gb in HadHat 7.3. I'm using >>>>datafile type ext3 and >>>>when i try create a datafile with 2Gb the database is catching. >>>>Anybody have the some problem? >>>>any suggestion? >>>> >>>>Thanks >>>> >>>>Adriano. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>-- >>>Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com >>>-- >>>Author: ltiu >>> INET: ltiu@alumni.sfu.ca >>> >>>Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 >>>San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists >>>-------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message >>>to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in >>>the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L >>>(or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may >>>also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > > >-- >Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com >-- >Author: ltiu > INET: ltiu@alumni.sfu.ca > >Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 >San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message >to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in >the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L >(or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may >also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > > > > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: ltiu INET: ltiu@alumni.sfu.ca Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).