If I have a database with 4k page size... independent of OS, How much
my database (.FDB file) can grow until I must create a adicional
files?

Guto

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 18:25:38 -0400, Ann W. Harrison
<aharrison@...> wrote:

> At 06:10 PM 8/30/2004, Johan van Zyl wrote:
> >Hi
> >OK, On Linux, 32-bit file I/O
> >it's 2GB and 64-bit file I/O, a few terabytes.
> >Which Linux is 32 bit and which is 64 bit
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> Just to be very clear: Regardless of the type of file I/O, a
> Firebird database can consist of multiple database files, so
> the theoretic limit of database size is 4Gb * 16Kb.
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> Firebird also supports access to external (non-database) files.
> There the limit is 2Gb per file. A single database can reference
> many external files. "Many" depends on the open file limit of
> the operating system.
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> Regards,
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> Ann
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Guto