Re: Adding chunks (Informix 5, under AIX 4)

Just one other comment, and that is that the device in /dev should be character special, not block special as shown below (the first letter should be c, not b). I don't know what would happen if you used a block special device; hopefully it wouldn't work. As it stands, you apparantly have two distinct device drivers pointing to the same spindle...could lead to some interesting problems. David In article <Pine.SOL.3.94.1.970502212904.3627A-100000@jfku.edu>, Don Miller <dmiller@jfku.edu> writes } }Hi: } }I'm relatively new to Informix, and I'm hoping somebody out there can }answer a few basic questions I've come across in adding a new chunk to an }existing database. } }First, I gather from the discussions on this news group in the past that }it's possible to add the chunk either as the block device or as the }character device, but that it is preferable to add it as the character }device - is that correct? } }If so, then assuming I already have the disk space I want to use }configured as the block device ( /dev/<whatever> ), how do I add the }definition for the character device in AIX? The spaces already in use for }this one have both sorts of entries; as an example, here is one already in }place: } }In /dev : } }brw-rw---- 1 root system 26, 7 Mar 8 11:26 /dev/hd15 } }and in /usr/informix/dev: } }crw-rw---- 1 informix informix 26, 7 May 2 18:20 dbs0.1 }