Re: How large file is really large - pathconf results - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Zdenek Kotala schrieb:
> Regarding to discussion about large segment size of table files a test 
> pathconf function (see 
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/pathconf.html).
> 
> You can see output there:
> 
> _PC_FILESIZEBITS - 3rd column
> _PC_LINK_MAX - 4th column
> _PC_NAME_MAX - 5th column   
> _PC_PATH_MAX - 6th column
> 
> 
> Solaris Nevada    ZFS    64    -1    255    1024
>         UFS    41    32767    255    1024
>         FAT    33    1    8    1024
>         NFS    41    32767    255    1024
> Solaris 8    UFS    41    32767    255    1024
>         NFS    40    32767    255    1024
> Centos4(2.6.11)    EXT3    64    32000    255    4096
>         XFS    64    2147483647    255    4096
> Mac OSX leopard    HFS+    64    32767    255    1024

cygwin 1.5 on NTFS. But 1.7 will a have much larger _PC_PATH_MAX.

_PC_FILESIZEBITS undefined
_PC_LINK_MAX = 8
_PC_NAME_MAX = 260
_PC_PATH_MAX = 257

So this is really bad.
-- 
Reini Urban