In a message dated 01-16-95, Mike Bilow said to Raetus Egli:

MB>Raetus Egli wrote in a message to Stephen Lindholm:

MB> By the way, there is no easy way out of this 2 GB file size
MB> limit on a PC.  Most implementations of Unix have the same
MB> limitation.

SL>NT did it right.

 RE> Note that the new DB2/2 (2.0) will not be limited to the 2GB
 RE> limit. It overcomes the problem the same way the mainframe
 RE> version overcame the 4 GB VSAM limit by allowing partitioned
 RE> tables.  Still not much  need for NT.

MB>Applications have always been free to maintain their 
MB>databases in groups of files and escape the file-size 
MB>limit, but that is not a solution.

Undstand that I would also prefer file sizes bigger than 2 Gigs.  I have
been a propent of this for quite ome time on Fido.  However, I do think
that with regards to databases any database worth its salt allows
for partitioning to overcome file size limits and as an additional
benefit to improve availability by allowing maintenance on the various
partitions while the database is up.

...Raetus
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