| Subject | RE: [ib-support] External file size limit |
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| Author | Helen Borrie |
| Post date | 2003-06-10T13:19:22Z |
At 08:20 AM 10/06/2003 -0400, you wrote:
directories, not files. Nothing has changed about the capacity of a disk
to accommodate sort files. The limit before was the amount of disk
available, and it still is. So still define your list of temp directories
to divert the sort files away from exhausting your system's common TMP
space, to one or more places where sufficient space is always available.
heLen
> (no more requirement for several TMP_DIRECTORY entries)This assumption is false, as the TMP_DIRECTORY entries point to
directories, not files. Nothing has changed about the capacity of a disk
to accommodate sort files. The limit before was the amount of disk
available, and it still is. So still define your list of temp directories
to divert the sort files away from exhausting your system's common TMP
space, to one or more places where sufficient space is always available.
heLen