Thats not a Sybase limit (although I remember a nasty bug in 11.5/AIX which prevented using devices over 2GB). It's a current Linux limit, I hope it will go away real soon.
Well well..... ive been using Sybase on pretty hefty (100+GB)databases, and see no problem in this.
I'd rather be worried about interoperability and limits: first of all, sybase will NOT load database dumps made on different platforms (Sybase on linux wont accept a dump from Sybase on Aix. Actually, it won't even work between Winnt/Intel and Winnt/Alpha, AFAIK).
This is pretty *bad*. If you only have to get a few tables mirrored, you could use BCP (its Bulk Copy Utility) to periodically dump those to plain text files.
Otherwise, you could also try Replication Server, but that's an unknown animal to me.
The other limit is size: if you want reliability, you HAVE to use raw devices, otherwise you risk corruption in case of server crash (believe me, it DOES happen). Under Linux you are currently limited to 2GB per raw device, so, with sybase's limit of max. 256 devices (with 6 already used), you have up to 500GB for an (unmirrored) database. Seems a lot, but it's not enough for todays biz needs... I keep seeing more and more multi-terabyte DBS (ahem.... most of them Oracle on Sparc Solaris.)
Perfect. Then i'll post a file named decss121b.zip, which contains: DeCSS.exe 30208 12/10/99 17:45 dvdtruth.txt 5087 05/11/99 00:59 readme.txt 1994 05/11/99 00:59 wnaspi32.w2k.dll 57344 02/02/99 19:10 wnaspi32.w98.dll 36864 11/05/98 20:01 and i'd carefully choose the content, too, so the compressed size is exactly 61110 bytes. AND, I would't be too surprised to hear that slightly larger version of the 'original' DeCSS archive will show up (i think that appending a few lines of FuckMPAA to the end of readme.txt would make such an elegant addon!)....
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Thats not a Sybase limit (although I remember a nasty bug in 11.5/AIX which prevented using devices over 2GB). It's a current Linux limit, I hope it will go away real soon.
Well well..... ive been using Sybase on pretty hefty (100+GB)databases, and see no problem in this.
I'd rather be worried about interoperability and limits: first of all, sybase will NOT load database dumps made on different platforms (Sybase on linux wont accept a dump from Sybase on Aix. Actually, it won't even work between Winnt/Intel and Winnt/Alpha, AFAIK).
This is pretty *bad*. If you only have to get a few tables mirrored, you could use BCP (its Bulk Copy Utility) to periodically dump those to plain text files.
Otherwise, you could also try Replication Server, but that's an unknown animal to me.
The other limit is size: if you want reliability, you HAVE to use raw devices, otherwise you risk corruption in case of server crash (believe me, it DOES happen).
Under Linux you are currently limited to 2GB per raw device, so, with sybase's limit of max. 256 devices (with 6 already used), you have up to 500GB for an (unmirrored) database. Seems a lot, but it's not enough for todays biz needs... I keep seeing more and more multi-terabyte DBS (ahem.... most of them Oracle on Sparc Solaris.)
Perfect. Then i'll post a file named decss121b.zip, which contains:
DeCSS.exe 30208 12/10/99 17:45
dvdtruth.txt 5087 05/11/99 00:59
readme.txt 1994 05/11/99 00:59
wnaspi32.w2k.dll 57344 02/02/99 19:10
wnaspi32.w98.dll 36864 11/05/98 20:01
and i'd carefully choose the content, too, so the compressed size is exactly 61110 bytes. AND, I would't be too surprised to hear that slightly larger version of the 'original' DeCSS archive will show up (i think that appending a few lines of FuckMPAA to the end of readme.txt would make such an elegant addon!)....