Re: 2 gb file limit [SUMMARY]

Posted in 1998

Neil Truby — Fri, 16 Oct 1998 00:33:32 +0100 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Susan Elliott (ISG) wrote: > > Quite right. Informix support advised me that it was a limitation of > Informix. > > You also can't use a dlt / tape as there is also a 2 gb limitation from the > unix side. > Thanks everyone. No, that simply isn't true Susan. I have, in the past week, done an onunload of a database whose size is well in excess of 8GBytes to tape. I've also onunloaded the same database to raw disk (using HP's volume manager) without any problems. Neil