Re: Moving Chunks

Posted in 1998

WF Software — 13 Sep 1998 21:07:11 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <35FBD65A.41C6@carus.de>, seh@carus.de (Sigrid Ehrenreich) wrote: > I have an Informix Database on cooked disk space. Now I would like to > change the path to the chunks (datafiles). Is there any way except > unload/load the whole data? > > Yours > Sigrid Ehrenreich > seh@carus.de > Assuming you are not using mirroring at the moment, you could mirror on to raw devices and down the cooked chunks, then link the old cooked files back to a raw device and then bring the mirroring back - not pretty but it should work. If you are mirroring on to cooked files the same technique can be expanded - it just takes longer. Paul Watson # I don't suffer from WF Software Ltd. # stress, I'm just Tel. (+44) 1436 674729 # a carrier Fax. (+44) 1436 678693 # www.wfsoftware.co.uk