Re: Advice for handling very large files in rpm

Stuart Gathman <stuart@xxxxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 18 Apr 2018 10:23:01 -0400



    On 04/18/2018 04:28 AM, tim.green
      wrote:

    
        Good morning,

        
        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.

        
        Everything must be self-contained and run on each server it
          is installed on, however I have a problem with one part: the
          database.

        
        The database is about 300 gigabytes in size, and so I am
          concerned about simply making an rpm out of it.

        
    RPM will make a copy of that 300G as part of an update - the
    filesystem needs to have enough room.  RPM checks that - hopefully
    with 64-bit arithmetic.  

    
    Is RPM subject to ULIMIT?  Does it handle it gracefully if so? 

    
    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?

    
    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.

  
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