Re: Rootdb

I want to clear something in my Article. I meant to say that we hired a consultant to work on our HP9000, he was not an employee from HP. Please forgive my english. dkulkarn@ix.netcom.com (Devkant N. Kulkarni) wrote: >Dear Informix Gurus!!!! > Some time ago we had hired a HP consultant to configure our HP9000/I50 >model to run elite/computron. I have since found that he as left us a >big mess...for starters he has not mirrored rootdb, and the logical >volume was created across 16 physical volumes (Yes! that's correct). >I wanted to mirror rootdb but we cannot add anymore disk to the Volume >Group since he has also selected the default 16 Physical Volumes per >VG. I could and have reduced one of the other LV to get 400mb (that >is the size of rootdb). But when I go to mirror it I have to specify >non-strict mirroring (i.e. on the same disk since it is across all 16 >disks) I was able to mirror the rootdb across two disks by specifying >lvextend -m 1 /dev/vg02/rootdb /dev/dsk/c18d0s2 /dev/dsk/c19d0s2. >This as you know is not a good idea to mirror LV on same disks. I >would like to move and/or create a rootdb LV on a separate VG and then >link it....I understand I have to do a restore....any suggestions how >to go about doing this....I would realy appreciate it. > Also we are currently running Informix 5.05 and would like to move on >to the 7.xx. Is there any advantage or disadvantage with a single >cpu. There is 256mb of RAM. >Ask as many questions, you may find the answer. >e-mail: dkulkarn@ix.netcom.com