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Rebuild to IDX8

  • February 24, 2014
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Hi,

I have datafiles formatted using IDXFORMAT"4" and wanted to convert to IDXFORMAT"8" using REBUILD.exe; so basically I will issue a command (under Command Prompt);
REBUILD myData01.DAT, myNewData01.DAT /s:MF4 /t:MF8 /d /i /v:500 /e

Is this REBUILD command uses EXTFH.cfg?? Or Rebuild application will just do the rest without checking the configuration below;
EXTFH=C:\\extfh.cfg

Because I am planning to use REBUILD (or create a new IDX8) a datafile... but my EXTFH configuration is still using FILEMAXSIZE=4.

Any comment on this? Thanks.


#extfh
#rebuild.exe
#netexpress3.10

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Chris Glazier
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  • February 24, 2014

Hi,

I have datafiles formatted using IDXFORMAT"4" and wanted to convert to IDXFORMAT"8" using REBUILD.exe; so basically I will issue a command (under Command Prompt);
REBUILD myData01.DAT, myNewData01.DAT /s:MF4 /t:MF8 /d /i /v:500 /e

Is this REBUILD command uses EXTFH.cfg?? Or Rebuild application will just do the rest without checking the configuration below;
EXTFH=C:\\extfh.cfg

Because I am planning to use REBUILD (or create a new IDX8) a datafile... but my EXTFH configuration is still using FILEMAXSIZE=4.

Any comment on this? Thanks.


#extfh
#rebuild.exe
#netexpress3.10

rebuild does pick up and use the extfh.cfg file if one is present but the options specified on the command line will override any settings in the extfh.cfg.

The FILEMAXSIZE option has no bearing on the actual physical file but instead affects only the size of the file offsets that are kept in memory for the file when the file is open.

Therefore if you wish to create idxformat"8" files that are > 1 GB shared then you will need to change your extfh.cfg to use the FILEMAXSIZE=8 option when running your application.

Thanks.

D

Hi,

I have datafiles formatted using IDXFORMAT"4" and wanted to convert to IDXFORMAT"8" using REBUILD.exe; so basically I will issue a command (under Command Prompt);
REBUILD myData01.DAT, myNewData01.DAT /s:MF4 /t:MF8 /d /i /v:500 /e

Is this REBUILD command uses EXTFH.cfg?? Or Rebuild application will just do the rest without checking the configuration below;
EXTFH=C:\\extfh.cfg

Because I am planning to use REBUILD (or create a new IDX8) a datafile... but my EXTFH configuration is still using FILEMAXSIZE=4.

Any comment on this? Thanks.


#extfh
#rebuild.exe
#netexpress3.10

Thanks Chris..

D

Hi,

I have datafiles formatted using IDXFORMAT"4" and wanted to convert to IDXFORMAT"8" using REBUILD.exe; so basically I will issue a command (under Command Prompt);
REBUILD myData01.DAT, myNewData01.DAT /s:MF4 /t:MF8 /d /i /v:500 /e

Is this REBUILD command uses EXTFH.cfg?? Or Rebuild application will just do the rest without checking the configuration below;
EXTFH=C:\\extfh.cfg

Because I am planning to use REBUILD (or create a new IDX8) a datafile... but my EXTFH configuration is still using FILEMAXSIZE=4.

Any comment on this? Thanks.


#extfh
#rebuild.exe
#netexpress3.10

Thanks Chris..

D

Hi,

I have datafiles formatted using IDXFORMAT"4" and wanted to convert to IDXFORMAT"8" using REBUILD.exe; so basically I will issue a command (under Command Prompt);
REBUILD myData01.DAT, myNewData01.DAT /s:MF4 /t:MF8 /d /i /v:500 /e

Is this REBUILD command uses EXTFH.cfg?? Or Rebuild application will just do the rest without checking the configuration below;
EXTFH=C:\\extfh.cfg

Because I am planning to use REBUILD (or create a new IDX8) a datafile... but my EXTFH configuration is still using FILEMAXSIZE=4.

Any comment on this? Thanks.


#extfh
#rebuild.exe
#netexpress3.10

Thanks Chris..

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