[Zope] Zope Startup Questions II (Son of Zope)

[Ian Willis]

It is more a limitation of the 32 bit chipset rather than a limitation
of the filesystem. 64 bit systems don't have this problem and a
journaling filesystem won't fix the problem. It was a design choice when
the filesystem was designed, disks were small and 64 bit systems were on
the horizon. I think thatIntel has done some fancy design work on the
Xeons so that that have 36 bit registers that are used for addressing
but it is basically a kludge( needs a nonstandard approach for just that
platform ). The software kludge is to create an extra layer in the
filesystem ( read slower ) design. There are patches round that do fix
this problem but the reason why it has not been incorporated into the
mainstream kernel is that it is bad (read nonstandard ) design. If you
are addressing files of this size I would look very seriously at a 64
bit system simply for performance reasons. 
Ethan Fremen wrote:
> 
> Pavlos Christoforou wrote:
> > On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Alexander Limi wrote:
> > > Does anybody know if this is a limitation of the kernel or the FS? And
> is
> > > it going to be fixed in the foreseeable future?
> >
> > It is a limitation of the FS, and it will be fixed but I do not know
> when.
> 
> The next edition of Red Hat Linux will include a journaling filesystem-
> i believe this is the one from SGI- which allows files in the
> petabytes...
> 
> --
> Ethan "mindlace" Fremen
> you cannot abdicate responsibility
> for your ideology.
> 
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