Re: Online 7.2 KAIO on HP-UX 10.10

At 01:44 PM 9/30/96 -0700, Doug Johnson wrote: }David Williams wrote: }> }> }> You chunks must also be on raw disk for KAIO to work. }> }> -- }> David Williams } }All of the chunks are on raw logical volumes (/dev/vg/disk1vol1, not file }systems and not /dev/rdsk/??????). I haven't seen any Informix }documentation but tech support says that LVM and Veritas logical volumes }are as good as raw. With larger disks (Seagate 23GBs due to GA soon) and }multi-disk RAID-5 devices, Informix's 2GB -o/-s limits force the use of }logical volumes. There is certainly an extra layer of fairly complex }software (HP recently released some LVM patches because disk status }wasn't being propagated) but KAIO should work on raw logical volumes }(KAIO has worked on Stratus logical volumes for years). Anyone able to }confirm or refute? } }Doug I agree. I've been using KAIO on Sequent's, using their LVM, since KAIO was introduced, and have had no problems (other then a kernel adjustment). Jon -------------------------------------- Jon C. Vemo jvemo@cyberspace.com Bothell, WA USA --------------------------------------