Subject Re: [IB-Architect] Use SGI XFS on linux for database file > 2G
Author Ann W. Harrison
At 12:31 PM 6/9/2001 +0800, Almond Wong wrote:

>As the subject specified, is the 2G db file limit is gone when using SGI's
>XFS ? Please advice.

The problem is in the InterBase code. To position itself within the database,
it multiplies the page number times the page sizes. The variable that holds
the result is a long. Firebird 1 removes that restriction because it uses
an int64 for the computation.


Regards,

Ann
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