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Date:      Sun, 1 Feb 1998 16:51:22 +0100 (CET)
From:      Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
To:        toasty@home.dragondata.com (Kevin Day)
Cc:        dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, karl@mcs.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: File Size limit?
Message-ID:  <199802011551.QAA18953@intern>
In-Reply-To: <199801312325.RAA08750@home.dragondata.com> from Kevin Day at "Jan 31, 98 05:25:55 pm"

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> > > Good, because I am dangerously close to 2G files in my Rdbms right now :-)
> > > 
> > I suspect that you won't have any problems until at least 32GB.  Theoretically,
> > we can support .5TB, but it hasn't been adequately tested, and I believe
> > that there are some known overflow problems before there.
> > 
> 
> We've passed 4G on our httpd log files with no adverse side effects. (analog
> freaked out past 2G, but I can reliably read/write at least that far)
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  bin  4937477849 Jan 31 17:24 httpd-access.log

JFYI, when doing backups, I tar all files into a single tarfile on
a seperate holding disk. I have been above 16GB already without
any visible side effects (2.2.5-stable). However, deleting that
file takes a little bit :-).

	-Andre



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