[ZODB-Dev] Data lossage

Chris Withers chrisw at nipltd.com
Mon Sep 15 11:18:22 EDT 2003


Vladimir Voznesensky wrote:
> As you mentioned, your database file is about 2Gbytes in size.
> 2GB is the maximum file size in many linux platforms because of 32-bit 
> signed offsets.
> Consider a possibility that ZODB uses 32-bit signed integers to handle 
> it's file database.

I haven't heard of a 2GB limit that couldn't be overcoem by, at worst, 
recompiling python and switching the filesystem in use...

Chris




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