Re: 2 gb file limit

Posted in 1998

Joshua R. Poulson — 18 Oct 1998 20:08:48 -0700 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

nsi001@aol.com (NSI001) writes: > the limitation by the 2 GB chunks is certainly not any more adequate > in times where a typically RAID5-Array gives you 9GB*4(5) = 36GB of > net-space per array. > On plattforms like sco OpenServer , it leads to the fact that you > are not able to use the whole space in the prev. example. Well, you can have quite a few chunks in a single dbspace, several dbspaces, and (if you use the product I help make), dbslices across multiple coservers. Where does the 2GB limit on a single chunk become a problem?