Subject Re: [ib-support] Max. DatabaseSize 64-Bit I/O
Author Ann W. Harrison
At 10:03 AM 1/21/2003 +0100, Svein Erling Tysvaer wrote:

> >FireBird 1.0.2 with 64 Bit I/O allows up to 980 GB in a single file?
> >Is it possible to create multiple files to handle more than 980 GB?
> >
>Three years (and two days) ago Bill Karwin wrote "InterBase's theoretical
>maximum is 32TB I believe." I don't know whether that has been increased
>since, but I would be very surprised if Firebird had reduced that size.

By increasing the size of a single file from 4GB to 980GB, we also
increased the (theoretical) maximum database size from 32 TB to
7840TB. However, you'll need to have quite a lot of 1TB disks to
reach that limit.


Regards,

Ann
www.ibphoenix.com
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