Thank you very much. I knew about those limitations, but didn't realize that
they're causing my problems here. I'm running some tests here in our
research lab, and very often I'm getting IB database corruptions. You
mentioned that it'll get corrupted as soon as it gets 2/4 Gbs big... It
seems that that's what I'm observing.

Can you tell me something: very often in my test I get the following
message:

GDS Software consistensy check - can't continue after bug check

...
and also:
Database file appears corrupt.

Can you tell me what do those errors mean and how is it possible for them to
happen? Also, in another note that I posted a few minutes ago, I'm asking
whether it's possible to validate the database from withih my application,
so that I can detect the above states BEFORE they actually happen after a
query execution. Can you give me a hint?

Thanks a lot,

Cheers,
Dimitar

At 09:15 AM 05-09-01 +0300, you wrote:

AFAIK, 2 Gb is the FAT32 limit on all Windows versions, 4Gb is the NTFS
limit on all NTs. fwiw, 2 Gb is also the upper limit on Linux, but this
doesn't apply to all Unixes.

Sean posted some figures on this list a few weeks ago, as I recall. Perhaps
he could dig them out again and they can be added to the releasenotes
somewhere; although this is an operating system issue, not a FB/IB one...

Helen