Re: problem with dumpall

From: "Timur V(dot) Irmatov" <thor(at)sarkor(dot)com>
To: "Weiping He" <laser(at)zhengmai(dot)com(dot)cn>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: problem with dumpall
Date: 2002-01-10 07:32:34
Message-ID: 110991009.20020110123234@sarkor.com
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Hi!

>> Hi !
>> I have small problem
>> amount size all databases ~5Gb
>> I make dumpall >dumpfile
>> when size dumpfile = 1024 dumpall print error and exit !
>> Linux Slackware7.2 ext2 2.4.17 gcc2.95
WH> ^^^
WH> I think ext2 can't support file larger then 2G,
WH> and your DB may be near 5Gb, so it's a problem.

I think the problem here is in kernel 2.4.17 ..
I had a problem with 2.4.11 kernel when i tried
to mke2fs a partition > 2 Gb in size ... mke2fs died with a message:
"file size exceeded" ... The solution was to log in directly with
root ...

The problem lies in bash ulimits, AFAIR

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