On 19 Apr 2005 at 10:01, Nigel Weeks wrote:

>I was just wondering if having the segment size of BLOBs the same as
>the filesystem block sizes yields any benefits?

No.

> Or does Firebird
>completely disregard the segment size when storing to;retrieving from
>disk.

I'd say even more: Firebird disregard segment size at all. The only
place where it is still used is choice of buffer size in GPRE-ed
modules. But GPRE itself is used very seldom.
--
SY, Dimitry Sibiryakov.