Re: 2Gig limit on Chunk Plus Offset
Posted in 1999
Chuck Renaud — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)
> Has anyone heard if Informix is planning on relaseing a patch to get > past the 2 gig Chunk size plus offset limit. I have partioned my disks > into 5 raw slices, but I still have half the disk array unusable in Raw > modes since I can only access 2 gig per slice. Anyone got a work around > for this other than not striping? From my understanding of the architecture, it isn't going to happen anytime soon. It's definitely not as simple as a patch...it would take a significant modification of at least the reserved page structure and probably even more... Why not 10 raw slices? I'm not sure what OS you're using, but logical voluming (if supported on your system) would work.