Re: Row Devices and Chunk offset

Phillipe, I can confirm this. We run AIX and when we initially set up we had to use the same offset. The information came from the Informix engineer who helped us configure. However, I have not seen documentation to back up what she said. Since the configuration has never caused a problem, I have always used the offset since. Dave Thacker Omni Hotels Reservation Center Philippe Meylan <Meylan@steria.ch> wrote in article <622h0a$1sa@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>... > We are using INFORMIX 7.1x and our chunks are located on row devices. IBM > inform us that an offset of 512 bytes is required between the base of the > row device and the beginning of the chunk. This area should be used by AIX > for system management. > > My question : > > This requirement is undocumented and the ONINIT tools doesn't reserve any > offset when creating a new chunk. It's this requirement justified and can > be applied on any platform ? Has Informix a document explaining that ? > > Thanks for your answers. > > Philippe. > > STERIA Informatic SA/AG, Geneva, Switzerland > Philippe Meylan > E-mail : Meylan@steria.ch > Phone : +41 22 7080202 > Web : www.steria.fr > >