Currently, the cost associated with going to 64-bit addressing for UniVerse & Unidata is the loss of a particular tool which is useful in repairing file corruption, filepeek. File corruption is pretty rare, but not unheard of, especially as hardware fails. By going to a scheme like RAID0+1 with transaction logging, you probably won't miss (watch the thread this starts...) filepeek. As an aside, reducing the amount of data in overflow reduces the risk of corruption, by minimizing the number of links, which are failure points.
So you can enable U2 64-bit addressing in the (udt/uv)config file, which will then make the limit a historical curiosity. Or you can use dynamic files (although at the most - with a lot of luck - this gives you 4Gb), or in UniVerse you can use distributed files, which imho are a better choice anyway, making the size of a file limited only by your disk drive budget.
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From: Jason Theis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: U2 Users Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'U2 Users Discussion List' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: 2 gig limits Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 12:40:15 -0700
We are looking to move to Universe. Does a 2 gig limit apply to Universe as
well? Does it only apply to the backup or live data?
JT
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