Phil Shrimpton wrote:

> 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

Is there impact on performance? I am not familiar with 64bit IO - Is'nt it
uses larger blocks for transfers with hdd controler?


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