--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Adam" <s3057043@y...> wrote:

>
> --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "diegodelafuente"
> <diegodelafuente@y...> wrote:
> >
> > Hy:
> >
> > I readed that the Database limitation is 7TB.
> > That´s fine because my DB now is about 2Gb.
> > But I saw in this book too, that the file size limitation in Fat

32

> > And Ext 2 is 2Gb. And with ext 3 about 4G.
> > I´am using Red hat 9 and my DB file is about 2Gb.
> >
>
> I assume these figures are correct. If so I am a little surprised

ext3

> isnt higher.
>
> > I will have problems near future with my DB.
>
> If your database grows to larger than the largest single file
> limitation of your file system then yes.
>
> > What can i do to solve the file Size limitation
> >
>
> You can split the database to set sized files.
>
> Adam
>

Yep,

as I suspected you are way off with Ext3

Max File Size = 2^40 bytes

not 2^30

So you have about 1024 times as much limit as you thought.

Adam