Re: [htdig] having a database bigger than 2 GB

[Jim C. <gre...@yg...>]

Peter Asemann's bits of Wed, 17 Jul 2002 translated to:

>The file system is, as I have been assured, capable of handling files bigger
>than 2 GB - it's an ext3 linux file system from SuSE Linux 8.0 (kernel

You might want to double check the information you have been
provided. Based on everything I have read (admittedly limited),
ext3 is just ext2+journaling; it doesn't address the 2GB limit.

>2.4.18). So probably it's htdigs "fault" that the rundig process runs into file
>size limit problems? Is that... a thing one can fix by just editing a few lines

ht://Dig itself doesn't place any limits on file size. In fact,
just a couple weeks ago, someone wrote the list and stated that
after switching to the Reiser filesystem (from ext3) they were
able to start working with >2GB database files.

Jim