From: Andy Hardy <aph@ahardy.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Weird export problem
Date: 1996/11/11
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In article <55a1hj$ah3@arktur.rz.uni-ulm.de>, Walter Zimmer
<wzimmer@atair.rz.uni-ulm.de> writes
>Hi !
>
>We just want to upgrade our database by a fresh install.
>So we did an export (exp full=yes) and tried to import
>the same data into the newly installed system. There the
>import badly failed !
>
>Looking with 'less' at 'expdat.dmp', we discovered a weird fact:
>One datafile which actually uses 3145736192 (3 giga-)bytes
>appears in a CREATE TABLESPACE command with
>'SIZE 18446744072560312320' (18 exabytes).
>
>What did go wrong _there_ ???
>
>Thanks,
>Walter
>
>walter.zimmer@rz.uni-ulm.de
>Forms 4.5 developer
Walter,

As a matter of interest, what OS is allowing you to create 3Gb+ export
files?

I *thought* that 2**32 was about the max size for most OS's, but then I
only use SunOs and Solaris!

Andy
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