Re: Using Large Disks under Solaris

From: Richard Auslander <rich@airflash.com> > >Greetings all. Perhaps someone (besides Obnoxo) can help me with this? >It would be greatly appreciated. :-p >I have observed that Informix has a chunk size limitation of around >2.01GB. In addition, on Solaris, we are able to define no more than 7 >(and typically 6) partitions on a given hard disk. Although I am very >aware of how to use 'onspaces' to combine multiple chunks into a single >dataspace, it still appears that Informix under Solaris can support a >maximum physical disk size of around (6 * 2.01 GB), which comes out to >[I goed to colledge] around 12GB, assuming I *want* to make all the >chunks the maximum of 2GB, which I often don't. We recently purchased a >Sun E450, which we ordered with 18GB disks. In practive, I've been able >to use only around 60-70% of the disk space purchased, and as disk >densities increase, the problem will only worsen. > >Can someone pleeeez tell me that I'm wrong about this limit? ;-) Veritas. Or some other volume manager. :-) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com