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Large File Problems in Modern Unices

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-deal-with dept.

david-currie writes "Freshmeat is running an article that talks about the problems with the support for large files under some operating systems, and possible ways of dealing with these problems. It's an interesting look into some of the kinds of less obvious problems that distro-compilers have to face."

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  1. Re:Why large files by Big+Mark · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Video. Raw, uncompressed, high-quality video with a sound channel is fucking HUGE. Look how big DivX files are, and they're compressed many, many times over.

    And compressing video on-the-fly isn't feasible if you're going to be tweaking with it, so that's why people use raw video.

    -Mark

  2. data warehouse, and any database for that matter by CrudPuppy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    my data warehouse at work is 600GB and grows at a rate of 4GB per day.

    the production database that drives the sites is like 100GB

    welcome to last week. 2GB is tiny.

    --
    A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
  3. Re:Wrong point of view. by cvande · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In a world everything is small and manageable. Unfortunately, some databases need tables BIGGER than 2gb. Even splitting that table into multiple files still finds you with files larger than two gb. Try adding more tables? OK. Now they've grown to over 2gb and the more tables the more complicated everthing gets. I still need to back these suckers up and a backup vendor that I won't name can't help me because their software wasn't large file (for Linux) ready. So let's get into the game with this and make it the default so we don't need to worry about these problems in the future. Linux IS an enterprise solution.....(my $.02)