On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 03:20:51PM +0100, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> One of our tables has grown to 4GB. We are using Linux 2.4.20 on
> x86 with ext3 fs. I have read the MySQL manual which seesm to
> suggest that the RAID option is the only way forward.
>
> Has anyone else had any luck getting 4GB+ tables on this platform
> with e.g. reiserfs? Or maybe there is some kernel option I am
> missing.
A bit more investigation shows that since my linux box is already
able to create files larger than 4GB with ext3, this must be a MySQL
limitation and the RAID option is my only choice now. Am I correct
here?
