Re: pg_dump large-file support > 16GB

On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 15:05, Michael Kleiser wrote:
> I found on http://www.madeasy.de/7/ext2.htm (in german)
> ext2 can't have bigger files than 16GB if blocksize is 1k.
> Ext3 is ext2 with journaling.
>
[............]

We use 4k. And as I said, we can generate files bigger than 16GB with
other programs in the same filesystem.

From tune2fs:
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tune2fs 1.32 (09-Nov-2002)
Filesystem volume name: <none>
Last mounted on: <not available>
Filesystem UUID: 80ecbce4-dcef-4668-ae84-887de850ed57
Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53
Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic)
Filesystem features: has_journal filetype needs_recovery
sparse_super large_file
Default mount options: (none)
Filesystem state: clean
Errors behavior: Continue
Filesystem OS type: Linux
Inode count: 5128192
Block count: 10240000
Reserved block count: 102400
Free blocks: 10070728
Free inodes: 5128097
First block: 0
Block size: 4096
Fragment size: 4096
Blocks per group: 32768
Fragments per group: 32768
Inodes per group: 16384
Inode blocks per group: 512
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Regards.
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Rafael Martinez, <r(dot)m(dot)guerrero(at)usit(dot)uio(dot)no>
Center for Information Technology Services
University of Oslo, Norway

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