[ZODB-Dev] Data lossage

[Paul Winkler]

On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 02:24:06PM +0400, Vladimir Voznesensky wrote:
> Hi.
> 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.
> VV

Well, actually the Data.fs in question is currently 1.9 GB, and
at one time several months ago it peaked a bit over 3 GB.
I built python with large file support and made sure the underlying
platform was OK with it.  We were over 2 GB for several months and 
everything ran fine during that time.

I would be really surprised if, at this stage in its life,
ZODB could fail on an integer overflow without logging any problem.

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