MySQL Bugs: #17163: Large file support wanted on IBM AIX

Bug #17163	Large file support wanted on IBM AIX
Submitted:	6 Feb 2006 18:08	Modified:	27 May 2006 7:03
Reporter:	Björn Wiberg	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server	Severity:	S4 (Feature request)
Version:	5.0.18-debug	OS:	IBM AIX 5.2.0.0 ML5
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
I would like to submit a request for large file support to be enabled in the MySQL AB binary builds of MySQL on IBM AIX, as large file support is available for both JFS and JFS2 file systems since a long time ago (see http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1pTechnote0448).

Otherwise, tables, log files or other files of MySQL cannot exceed 2 GB size.

Best regards,
Björn

How to repeat:
Current setting is:

---8<---
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 104 to server version: 5.0.18-debug-log

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

root@localhost (none)> show variables like '%large_file%';
+---------------------+-------+
| Variable_name       | Value |
+---------------------+-------+
| large_files_support | OFF   |
+---------------------+-------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
--->8---

Suggested fix:
Addition of the "--enable-large-files" flag to './configure'.

Thank you for a feature request. Please, check with a newer version, 5.0.21, and inform about the results.

Thanks, seems to be fixed in 5.0.21 (or even in 5.0.20), and I've seen log files getting larger than 2 GB now, so that solved the problem.

Thanks again!

Best regards,
Björn

Large file support added in latest versions of 5.0.x for AIX.