On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 18:48, Alexey Kovyazin <a...@ib-aid.com> 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 =)
