What you can do is inspect Firebird structure and search for an unused area.
Documentation about this can be found at
http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/fb-internals.html
By example if you check
http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/fbint-standard-header.html
Pag_checksum: Two bytes, unsigned. Bytes 0x02 - 0x03. Checksum for the
whole page. No longer used, always 12345, 0x3039. Databases using ODS8
on Windows NT do have a valid checksum here.
You can use this safely (?)
Em 03/12/2015 22:19, Christian Gütter n...@guetter.org
[firebird-support] escreveu:
Mark Rotteveel wrote:
> On Windows, all files can have alternative streams with additional
> data. It is a form of hidden metadata that is attached to the main
filename.
True, but the alternate data streams get lost when the file is stored
on a non-NTFS drive, sent via FTP/E-Mail etc. So depending on how the
software of the OP is released, this might not work well.
Anyway, rereading the original post, I realized that he is looking for
a platform independent solution, so my focus on Windows did not help
anyway.
Cheers,
Christian
--
