Subject RE: [ib-support] Urgent: Insufficient Disk Space
Author Leyne, Sean
Don,

> We are getting the following error when trying to process
> records in our Firebird 1.0 database:
>
> I/O error for file "C:\GENSOFT\IB_DATA\MASTER~1.GDB"
> Error while trying to write to file
> There is not enough space on the disk.
>
> We have 22.7 GB free on that disk. Windows 2000 PC, 256 MB
> RAM. Delphi 5
> application is doing the processing. We have many databases at other
> companies that don't get this error. The database size is
> right at 4 GB
> (actual: 4,194,296 KB). I thought Firebird didn't have any
> size limits now.

Please confirm that you are indeed running the v1.0 final release (build
796 or later). Earlier v1.0 builds (betas and RCs) had issues that were
resolved in the final release.

I can confirm that v1.0 for Win32 supports single database files which
are larger than 4Gb!


Sean