At 07:39 AM 19-10-00 -0700, you wrote:

>Which brings us back to the point that my primary concern is manageability.
>
>In other words, if Interbase was capable of adding the additional files on
>an as needed basis (without operator intervention), then it's not as
>important for us to have support for files > 2/4GB.

I agree.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Marcelo Lopez Ruiz [mailto:marcelo.lopezruiz@...]
>Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 10:13 AM
>To: IB-Architect@egroups.com
>Subject: Re: [IB-Architect] Database files > 2GB.
>
>
>This is drifting rather off-topic for this group.

And with this I disagree, as long as it doesn't dissolve into a support
thread. Would the architects care to comment on whether popping up a new
file when need arises is doable?

Helen

>In short: all applications can go over the 4GB "limit". The problem is that
>there are a few functions, such as SetFilePointer, which take an offset and
>a "pointer to high" offset, in two different parameters. Since this is a
>pain in the neck to handle, at best, most programs assume the file won't hit
>the 4GB limit, and set the pointer to NULL, ignore the field in structs,
>etc.
>
>IMHO, I think multiple data files are more portable, efficient and flexible.
>
>Marcelo
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Marvin Varela Rodríguez <marvin@...>
>To: <IB-Architect@egroups.com>
>Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 1:48 PM
>Subject: Re: [IB-Architect] Database files > 2GB.
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> > certainly, there is a limit, but there are programs that can handle this
> > issue. Others can't.
> >
> > I've seen 6Gb databases working just find under winnt 4.0 and win2k.
> >
> > But a video file over 2Gb is imposible to read for windows.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Craig Stuntz" <ib-architect@...>
> > Newsgroups: mers.interbase.ib-architect
> > To: <ib-architect@...>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 9:15 AM
> > Subject: Re: [IB-Architect] Database files > 2GB.
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> > >
> > > Jason Chapman wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I thought there was an actual limit in NT to 4GB anyway.
> > >
> > > No, there is no such limit under NTFS.
> > >
> > > -Craig
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