Re: MySQL on Linux

[Brad Tilley]

On Tuesday 06 April 2004 17:28, dan wrote:
> nice flame! :)
> btw-
> Doesnt exist in out-of-the-box Linux distros,
> or any distro you can currently download.
> or any distro you could download (or buy) over the last few years.
>
> it doesnt occur in "vanilla" distributions or any other
> retail, commercial, or otherwise distribution...

Sorry, didn't mean to sound flameish. Just wanted to point out that 32 bit 
systems have limitations. 2^32 = 4 billion that's the max. Addressing more 
space than that requires a bit of black magic. That's why IPv4 only has 4 
billion IP addresses... why x86 systems only support 4GB of RAM... why linux 
systems w/o the LFS black magic are limited to 2GB file sizes. For 
addressable space more than that one needs 64 bits... no black magic there.