Re: max raw chunk size

Im Artikel <Pine.SUN.3.95L.970130101755.9089A-100000@bonjour.cc.columbia.edu>, "Osama R. Mawlawi" <orm1@columbia.edu> schreibt: >Hello Informix Gurus, > >I am considering the purchase of a 9 Gig disk drive on which I would >like to create a single raw 9 Gig database for images (blobs). I am >running Informix v5.0 under HPUX v9.05. Will I be able to do this? >Does the blob page size or other parameters affect the maximum chunk size? >Thanks in advance for any and all help (sorry if this is a naive >question). > > The max. Size to address is 2 GB. The reason is: The internal value of INFORMIX, wich points to the device-address is an integer field. And with an integer, you can address max 2G (on 32bit systems). That's it. Ciao, Volker