Redhat Linux 8.0 LVM Issue

[Vijaya Kumar_3]

Hi

We have a RHL Running 8.0 with OS delivered LVM. We are facing problem (system hangs) when we create a Oracle tablespace more than 2 GB size.

But, when we create files of size 400-600 Megs, it just works fine.

Is there any patch needed to be applied? Is there any workaround?

Thanks
Vijay

[Mark Grant]

I'd be interested to know which file system you were using though all the filesystems on 2.4 kernels support greater than 2GB files. LVM certainly does and wouldn'd create the logical volumes if it couldn't.

Do you have quota support enabled?

[Matt Palmer_2 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I had a similar issue with PostgreSQL and DB2 using the ext3 filesystem. I changed over to reiserfs and the problem seems to have stopped. I dont know if this might help you.

[Jerome Henry]

This issue if often reported.
Check that you do all this as root, not having sued.
Check you use updated Glibc.
The problem exists between 2.4.10 and 2.4.18-pre something I think. It
was a result of 2.4.10 moving block devices into the page cache, which
treated them like regular files, and ulimit applies to regular files.
If you have e2fsprogs 1.26, it should have a fix for this problem.

hth

J

[Vijaya Kumar_3]

Thanks guys for your help.

I dont have this issue right now. I need to check for this agiain.

Thanks a lot
Vijay