On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 10:46:43AM +0200, Stefan Siefert wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> we have a little problem with the size of our index file. We need to
> set a lot of combined Indexes and singel Indexes (we have a table
> with ca.  40.000.000 entries and something about 20 Columns). I'm
> pretty sure that the index file will get over the 4 GB size. We use
> Linux 2.4.x with a new glibc and MySQL compiled with
> --enable-largefile. I'm not sure, but this means we are limited to
> at least 4GB per file (or am I wrong?).

We have RedHat 7.1 and 7.2 based machines that have files much larger
than 4GB on them.  We have a 9GB .MYD file in at least one place.
There's no reason a .MYI file can't be that large.

We're using the standard MySQL binaries on box of those machines.

Jeremy
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