With IB 5.6 you also had to define multiple directories in order to avoid
the 2gig limit, because it does apply to sort files in IB 5.6 as we hit that
several times.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Helen Borrie [mailto:helebor@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 9:19 AM
> To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [ib-support] External file size limit
>
>
> At 08:20 AM 10/06/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> > (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
>
>
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