Subject Re: [ib-support] 64 vs. 32-bit I/O
Author Phil Shrimpton
On Sunday 16 February 2003 22:53, you wrote:

Hi,

> What is the benefit of using 64-bit I/O for
> the Linux version of Firebird?

You can have a single database file bigger that 2GB. Using 32bit I\O, each
database file can be a max of 2GB, but each database can be made of of many
files. It does not mean you can have bigger DB's, but with 64bit, you can
have big db's in a single file

Phil
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