Re: Informix raw device with Veritas and Solaris

Gary: Within Veritas (we 2.6), use the vxva utility verify your settings. Select a volume and confirm the "Usage Type". For raw, this is set to "gen". Also, check the "Stripe Unit Size". Through testing, we have found that a SUS of 16 is good for OLTP and a SUS size of 64 is good for DSS. Also, it looks like your permissions are not set correctly. Remember to "chmod 660 /dev/vx/rdsk/informixdg/vol01". HTH Steve Romankiw ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Quiring" <garyq@emcosales.com> To: <informix-list@iiug.org> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 2:50 PM Subject: Informix raw device with Veritas and Solaris > Newbie question. > > I have a Sun 4500 with 2 A1000's controllers and Veritas running Solaris 7. > > The server was installed with Veritas by the Sun vendor. I requested 2 gig > partitions, but they are character devices. Is that right? Our current > SCO system is using block devices. Was something not done right in > Veritas? > > I want to install Informix 7.31. Using onmonitor I tried to initialize the > DB but it won't let me out of the screen. The cursor keeps going back to > the primary path for the root name which is /dev/informix/dbspace01 > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 29 Sep 12 11:37 > /dev/informix/dbspace01 -> > /dev/vx/rdsk/informixdg/vol01 > > crw------- 1 informix informix 158,94000 Sep 12 11:11 > /dev/vx/rdsk/informixdg/ > vol01 > > Thanks > Gary Quiring > >