Jørgen Skogstad wrote:
Hmm.. well .. I can tell you what I know as of today. Linux has this limitation as of today. At least all the variants I have come over (mostly Red Hat and Suse). The limitation is in the filesystem implementation itself; meaning that the number of "references" that can be created cannot exceed the address limit of 2gb. Not quite true. The problem only exixts in Linux on 32 bit x86 hardware. Wherever Linux is 64 bit, the problem is non-extant. BTW, both RedHat and Suse (and Debian, IIRC) have distribions for the Alpha platform.
Yep.. didn't think of that as I have never reasoned for running linux on any of those platforms. ;) I've used to running Solaris on sparc.. and when needed linux on x86 hardware (when solaris for intel was not the correct choice).
Though; I look forward for SGI's implementation og XFS when it arrives in beta this summer.
I believe, though I may be wrong, that the 2.4 kernel also removes the problem. Which also is due out RSN. :) I am given to understand though, that some have had no success in getting python to create (and use?) a >2GB file, even though the uiderlying mechanisms could (this was on Linux ). So I am hopefull, yet cautios. ANd yes, I am eagerly awaiting for XFS to be done. I already have played with a snapshot of it. Not bad, needs work, but hey, it isn't released yet so, what could I expect, eh? ;)
Though; are there any possibilities that Zope may implement "Oracle style" distribution og the databases in due time? Like then you have a bit more "control" over where you put your data .. and what kind of devices you put them on?
.. possibly this can be done through ZEO and the beta shared object database (mount more than one instance of the Data.fs files).
not quite! You can _either_ use ZEO OR the MountedFileStorage product, but not both. I was working on a MountedZEOStorage, but haven't had as much time for it as I thought I would. Should be relatively easy though. -- Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they are easy to annoy, and have the root password.