>>Hi all,
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>>Very quick question, coming from using interbase for a long long time, then moving to firebird we are in the habit of splitting up our database files pre- 4gb filesystem limit.
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>>So for example we would have a 10gb live DB split into fdb, fd2 and fd3 when we create or restore it to make sure that the old ntfs file systems did not overwrite the beginning of a single file database. All of our customers now use a minimum O/S of Advanced server 2000 which I believe the filesystem limit is now 16 EiB, so in theory as my sites all have a databases smaller than 20gb we should be able to make these into single file db's instead of the multi file because the O/S filesystem we are using has surpassed the old 4gb file size limit ?
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>>Could someone in the 'know' confirm this for me ?

>Confirmed - theoretically - as long as the HDD partition is NTFS created by Win2K or greater. It is the filesystem that determines the file size limit, although I believe very old versions of >InterBase will "hobble" the file size regardless of the filesystem. Firebird doesn't have this behaviour.

>However, if your hard disk came from an old NT4 system and has never been repartitioned, then beware. The NTFS partitions created by NT4 have a 4 GB limit.

>./heLen

Many thanks for the confirmation Helen, all hardware out there is new Win 2k Advanced servers in clusters where firebird is cluster aware, they all use a raid disk set (central storage for cluster) made with the cluster and are thus created and formatted under a minimum of Win2k NTFS (some are now using Win 2008 server in cluster).

Regards

Martin


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