Re: raw devices - general questions

Posted in 1996

David Williams — Wed, 6 Nov 1996 23:02:47 +0000 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <327F8F83.7FF8@west.co.za>, "Mark D. Stock" <marks@west.co.za> writes >Allen Jantzen wrote: >> >> I have 2 4-gig SCSI drives (one for a primary, one for a mirror) that >> I want to configure as raw devices for Informix 7.13UC1 - a data >> warehouse. >> > >There was a bug in 5.something where the offset PLUS the size could not >exceed 2 Gbytes. But I am sure this is fixed in 7.13. ;-) > I wasn't a bug it is a limitation of the system call used to access position within the drive (lseek). This only accepts a 32-bit signed integer. Hence Online can only access the first 2 gigabytes of a drive. It still exists in version 7. (The 'bug' above was just a clarification of the limitation in the Online 5 release notes). -- David Williams