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[Veritas-bu] Serious master issue...

2007-02-14 07:38:59
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Serious master issue...
From: jpiszcz at lucidpixels.com (Justin Piszcz)
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:38:59 -0500 (EST)

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Ed Wilts wrote:

> On 2/14/2007 6:00 AM, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>> Also, I believe the (32bit) version of NetBackup in Linux also caps
>> sizes to 2GB as well.
>
> You are mistaken - the file size limit is not 2GB in RHEL 3 or later
> (and RHEL 3 is a few years old already).  This one is trivial to prove
> with something like (going from memory here)
>
> # dd if=/dev/null of=/filesystem/tmp.file bs=1MB count=4000
>
>       .../Ed
>
> -- 
> Ed Wilts, RHCE
> Mounds View, MN, USA
> mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org
>

The file limit by Veritas NetBackup is 2.0 gigabytes, not the OS.

Justin.