+------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | On 2010-01-21 13:06:00, Michelle Knight wrote: | | Aplogies for not explaining myself correctly, I'm copying from ext3 on to ZFS - it appears to my amateur eyes, that it is ZFS that is having the problem.
ZFS is quite happy to take files over 2GB. Example InnoDB tablespace: -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 5.1G Jan 21 16:12 cookie_actions.ibd -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 3.4G Jan 21 16:12 list_members.ibd -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 8.3G Jan 21 16:12 log.ibd -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 9.2G Jan 21 16:12 post_clicks.ibd Or test for yourself: [20100121-16:11:06]::[...@clamour]:[/export/scratch]$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=random bs=1024 count=4194304 4194304+0 records in 4194304+0 records out [20100121-16:14:29]::[...@clamour]:[/export/scratch]$ ls -lh random -rw-r--r-- 1 bda bda 4.0G Jan 21 16:14 random -- bda cyberpunk is dead. long live cyberpunk. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss