On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 18:48, Alexey Kovyazin <ak@...> wrote:

>> 1) Full hard disk: IIRC in this case Firebird will overwrite the file
>> from the beginning. Not good, but checking for free space on every
>> write would slow down writes too much. Just make sure you have enough
>> space.
>>
>
> This is far from true. Overwriting was an issue in Interbase 5.x.
> Lack of free space was solved with pre-allocation in recent Firebird
> versions - it will raise non-critical error.

Thanks for the correction. I knew it was a long time ago =)