Hi Everyone,

My query is about how applications deal with databases whose size
exceeds the maximum file size limit imposed by the file system.

I wrote a simple test program in Unix in which data is written to a
database stored on a disk file. Using the ulimit command in bash, I set
the file size limit to 10Mb for my shell, and ran the program in this
shell. When the database grew to more than 10Mb, the put operation
threw an exception with errno 27 (File too large).

Does this mean that my database size is now limited to 10Mb due to the
file size limit? If so, is there a way to store a database across
multiple files, so that we can get around the file limit?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
-- Abhijit

Yes.

No, not with the currently released Berkeley DB version.

Hi Florian,

Thanks for the information.

I think it would be good to have the ability to store DBs across
multiple files in future releases. This would be particularly important
when the platform itself has a 2Gb file size limit (eg some 32bit
Linux), which would in turn limit the DB size to 2Gb without multiple
file support.

Regards,
-- Abhijit