Subject Re: [firebird-support] Re: Database Size Limit
Author Helen Borrie
At 12:25 PM 2/10/2006, you wrote:
> > I'm using Ms Windows 2000 server and installed firebird 1.53 on it.
> > I'd like to transfer my 10 Gb ms SQL database to firebird.
> > I've read that there's database size limit (or maybe file size
> > limitation) on windows 2000 server.
>
>The 2GB file size limitation is a limit of the Ms FAT32 file system
>not of Firebird. NTFS has a limitation of 256TB, so providing you are
>installing the database on a NTFS volume you will be fine.

If the NTFS partition was created on NT 4.0 or below, there is a 4GB
file size limitation on that partition.

./heLen