<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style='font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;'><div class="zmail_extra"><div id="Zm-_Id_-Sgn1"><div>---- On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 16:23:01 +0200 <b>Stuart Gathman <stuart@gathman.org></b> wrote ----<br></div><div><br></div></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid #cccccc; padding-left: 6px; margin:0 0 0 5px"><div><div>On 04/18/2018 04:28 AM, tim.green wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><div>Good morning,<br></div><div><br></div><div>I have an application that is around 10 gigabytes that I would like to package with rpm, it is mostly java EAR files and an application server.<br></div><div>Everything must be self-contained and run on each server it is installed on, however I have a problem with one part: the database.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The database is about 300 gigabytes in size, and so I am concerned about simply making an rpm out of it.<br></div></div></blockquote><div>RPM will make a copy of that 300G as part of an update - the filesystem needs to have enough room. <br></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately I don't have the space for another 300G. Also I am unsure now if it makes sense - some of the major benefits of rpms are lost if the data files are being constantly modified. It feels like something I want rpm to manage though, a-la-git-LFS. Maybe there could be an rpm-LFS :)<br></div><div><br></div><div>I will look at the data update application approach.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,<br></div><div><br></div><div>tt<br></div><div><br></div><div class="zmail_extra"><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid #cccccc; padding-left: 6px; margin:0 0 0 5px"><div><div><br></div><div> RPM checks that - hopefully with 64-bit arithmetic. <br></div><div> <br></div><div> Is RPM subject to ULIMIT? Does it handle it gracefully if so? <br></div><div> <br></div><div> I would go ahead and make an RPM initially - just to test rpm with large files. Would the rpm work on a 32-bit system? Does it give a graceful error if not?<br></div><div> <br></div><div> If the 300G rpm turns out to be impractical, you could make an RPM with a "data update" application that downloads and installs the data, verifying with sha256.<br></div><div> _______________________________________________ <br></div><div>Rpm-list mailing list <br></div><div><a href="mailto:Rpm-list@lists.rpm.org">Rpm-list@lists.rpm.org</a> <br></div><div><a href="http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list">http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list</a> <br></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div></div><br></body></html>