It was a known issue.
There are some notes/docs on Metalink.

- Kirti

--- Oracle DBA Help <[Email Address Removed] wrote:
> Has anyone ever encountered this where in a Win NT/2k environment, if a
> datafile is resized or autoextends to a 4Gb boundary and the database is in
> archivelog mode, the file is marked offline and the only fix is to perform a
> complete restore of the database rolling forward until a point in time prior
> to the extension of the datafile. Especially in 9i?
>
>
>
> I mean what does that mean exactly. I've had several other datafiles extend
> beyond that boundary some time back and never encountered it, until recently
> for one datafile. And when I was able to recover the datafile, I started
> inserting to tables, where the datafile is now beyond that point.
>
>
>
> //a
>
>
>
>


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