[Zope-dev] large data.fs with zope

Petru Paler ppetru@coltronix.com
Mon, 28 Feb 2000 13:43:49 +0200


On Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 08:30:17PM +0000, ethan mindlace fremen wrote:
> The 2.3.27+ version of the kernel supports large file sizes. I have
> 2.3.47 installed, and I've set the block size on ext2 to 4k, so with my
> kernel, i should be able to do files of 1TB.
> 
> However, many of the userspace programs in linux don't recognize a file
> that's larger than 4GB: for example, ls reports that my 16GB test file
> is 64MB.
> 
> What I'm wondering is whether Zope would have any problems with a large
> Data.fs on linux and/or any suggestions on how to test it.

   I did some test when LFS support first appeared in the 2.3 kernel. Zope's
FileStorage died at 4Gb (didn't let me to add more objects, the rest was
working fine). Didn't had time to see what is the real problem.

> 
> I expect my Data.fs to grow to 26GB in size...

-Petru