Cooked vs raw

Hi All, I know, I know, this is a real beginners question. I inherited this database server all set up (and not very well). How can I tell if a dbspace is set up with cooked files or raw? The system admin here thought they were raw but it looks to me like cooked space. Solaris 2.5 x86 for intel Compaq 4000 IDS 7.20.UC2 I don't know what other info you will need.. Thanks, Anne

The possibility that Octav did not mention is that the chunks could be Block Special files ('b' in first char or ls -l listing) which would be a COOKED device file. If you have the chunk pathnames as links pointing to the block special device you can simply bring the engine down, relink to the character special devices with the same names and restart to change to RAW device chunks. If the chunks are in filesystem files you will have to copy the file to a RAW partition and replace the filename with a link to the RAW device file to accomplish the same changeover. Art S. Kagel Anne Shelp wrote: > > Hi All, > > I know, I know, this is a real beginners question. I inherited this database server all set up (and not very well). How can I tell if a dbspace is set up with cooked files or raw? The system admin here thought they were raw but it looks to me like cooked space. > > Solaris 2.5 x86 for intel > Compaq 4000 > > IDS 7.20.UC2 > I don't know what other info you will need.. > > Thanks, > Anne