Perhaps I was looking at old docs, as the docs had indicated that filestorage uses 32-bit position pointers; I'm guessing that this has since changed... Sean -----Original Message----- From: R. David Murray [mailto:bitz@bitdance.com] Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 9:54 AM To: sean.upton@uniontrib.com Cc: lehmann@catworkx.de; brian@digicool.com; zope-dev@zope.org Subject: RE: [Zope-dev] ANNOUNCE: Zope 2.4.0 alpha 1 released On Fri, 1 Jun 2001 sean.upton@uniontrib.com wrote:
My impression is that FileStorage implements a 32-bit id-type-thingy somewhere (look at ZODB docs, I think there is something about this somewhere), which limits it (in addition to the Linux kernel ext2 fs limit), to < 2GB. With 7.5 GB, I'd use a more advanced storage like the new - well, not quite released ;) - Berkeley (libdb3 based) storages, though I haven't tried anything like that myself...
FileStorage does *not* have a 2GB limit. The only 2GB limit is the old Linux filesystem limit. I know this, because I've had >2GB Data.fs files on FreeBSD. --RDM