On 6/2/2004 at 11:40 AM Adrian Allende wrote:

> Hi all
> My 4gb gdb never works on XP (NTFS), on different instalations and
> hardware with FB 1.0/1.5. The same DB on the same pc on the same HD on
> W2003 server has no problem. (I have 3 partitions, XP, 2003 and user data
> (.gdb) on NTFS)
> When connect to DB on XP, the fbserver.exe proccess do a i/o write
> operation that seems to "copy" the 4gb (of course, this take about 5 min).
> So, every time you open some app that connects to DB, the process begins
> to work very hard on HD.
> I must use 2003 only for this reason !
> Somebody has a working >2Gb FB DB on XP that does not copy on every
> connect?
> Any help?
> Thanks
> Adrián Allende
>

Adrian,

Microsoft took it upon themselves to "help" you when they created XP. They added a nifty little bug (Feature) called System Restore. Furthermore, they decided that .gdb files should be included under this sweet feature. Either rename your file to .fdb, or go in and turn off system restore, or both. See "System Restore" under the "help and support" menu in XP. I'm betting this will help your problem immensely.

Watch out for disk shadowing under 2003 Server: that can eat you alive too, I understand, although I've never used 2003 personally.

HTH,

Dan.