What you are saying is that there is difference between NTFS NT4 SP6 and
NTFS W2K SP2?

Yes, they are different versions of NTFS, I can't remember the exact version
numbers but its something like V1.2 on 2k and 1.0 or something on NT4, and
1.3 or something under winxp. On earlier versions of w2k and on xp it would
auto convert the partition to the newer version, thereby rendering it
useless to use that disk on a non 2k/xp box.

Cheers
Steven

-----Original Message-----
From: Johan van Zyl [mailto:johan@...]
Sent: Thursday, 21 April 2005 9:19 AM
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [firebird-support] .FDB file size limit


What you are saying is that there is difference between NTFS NT4 SP6 and
NTFS W2K SP2?
Some would say that it is obvious - but not to me, if they call BOTH NTFS,
not NFTF 1 and 2 or NTFS Plain and NTFS MX etc.
As NT4 is not really around anymore - that means a .fdb file on Win2K SP2
and above (and Linux???) can be LARGE i.e HUGE i.e like TB's in size (even 1
TB will do - for a while<g>) Great Stuff!
JVZ
-----Original Message-----
From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Helen Borrie
Sent: 21 April 2005 00:58
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [firebird-support] .FDB file size limit


At 05:05 PM 20/04/2005 -0400, you wrote:

>Bill,
>
>
> > >> Any ideas why this may be happening?
>
>...
>
> > >What file system are you using? Fat-32 or NTFS?
>
>...
>
> > NTFS
>
>Are you **positive**?
>
>I had a client DB running on Win2000 which has over 5GB is size, without
>any problems!
>
>I suspect that the volume is actually FAT32.

Or that you fell into the same trap I did? I upgraded from NT4 SP 6 to
Win2K SP2. Existing NTFS partitions apparently didn't get upgraded to
64-bit and choked on 4+Gb files. New NTFS partitions added since to new
HDDs were in 64-bit. Solution (for me) was to back up the dbs and restore
to new disks.

./hb




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