On Tue, 12 Mar 1996 19:11:22 MST, [log in to unmask] (F. Alfredo Rego) wrote:
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|>From HP's Support Line service regarding HP-UX:
|PROBLEM TEXT
|Has there been any change to the maximum file size or file system size at
|10.01? What about the maximum disk size supported?
|
|RESOLUTION TEXT
|The maximum file size and file system size supported are the same as at 9.x:
|Maximum file size supported is 2 GB.
|Maximum file system size supported is 4 GB.
|At 10.01, the disk size supported has increased since 9.x:
|Maximum disk drive size supported is 4 GB.
|NOTE: The maximum logical volume supported is also 4 GB.
|
|How does this compare to CURRENT Jumbo dataset sizes (i.e., datasets with
|much more than 4 GB that you can have, today, under IMAGE and MPE/iX on the
|HP3000)?
|
|Is there a typo somewhere in the HP-UX Support Line documentation?  Was
|there a typo on the previous HP-UX press release?  What's up?
 
Alfredo,
 
Large production databases on HP-UX do not usually reside on a file system.
They sit on "raw" disc and the DBMS manages the space directly.  This has
the advantage of improved performance over access through the file system.
However, it has significant drawbacks such as the difficulty of backing up
the data in that database.  In any case, that is why I think HP-UX can "get
along" without larger file systems.
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