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.m.guerrero@usit.uio.no>
Center for Information Technology Services
University of Oslo, Norway

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