[OSM-talk] planet file size limit

[Ray Booysen]

On 4/4/07, Dave <osm.list at randomjunk.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 04/04/07, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
> >
> > Perhaps someone has already thought about this, but I notice that the
> > planet.osm file is 3.5Gb at the moment, so it won't be very long before
> > it
> > reaches the 4Gb file size limit typical of many disks (e.g. FAT32 - i.e.
> > most USB hard disks) and things like compression programs will start to
> > blow
> > up too (can bz2 files cope with a file > 4Gb?).
>
>
>
> Yeah, bzip2 can cope.
> As can ntfs, ext3, xfs, and reiserfs.
>
> I think most people doing development/processing using the planet are not
> going to be using fat32.
> Personally I'd not bother wasting my time unless somebody actually starts
> to complain.
>
> If people are after a smaller chunk then they'll download one of the
> excerpts people are generating. Splitting the file will just cause a
> headache like having to cat them all together before plugging them into
> tools expecting only one file.
> I doubt any tools which are designed to work with the planet will be
> broken by a 4GB barrier.
>


I'll agree with this.  <tongue in cheek>We can always ask the first person
to complain that its not working on their machine to write a script.</tongue
in cheek> ;)



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Ray Booysen
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