Re: 2Gb vs 4Gb Disks - Which is faster????

Posted in 1996

Melvin Mariney — Wed, 27 Mar 1996 16:12:02 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Bob_Baskett-RZBJ40@email.sps.mot.com wrote: >melvin, >go with the 2gig drives. last time i checked, informix imposes a 2gig addressing >limit on the database. that is, the offset + the dbspaces size cannot exceed >2gig. Bob, the 2gb limit is on the chunk size, not DBSPACE size. Since you can have multiple chunks per dbspace, the dbspace can be larger than 2gb. -- Melvin Mariney, Informix DBA e-mail: melvin.mariney2@bridge.bellsouth.com