2Gig limit on Chunk Plus Offset

Posted in 1999

Steve Herring — Mon, 23 Aug 1999 16:15:49 -0500 — 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? Steve

↪ replying to Steve Herring

Joyce Cunningham — Thu, 23 Sep 1999 09:55:04 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Steve, If you are using Solaris, you can edit the output of 'prtvtoc' and create six additional slices with 'fmthard'. There is a discription of this on the Solaris developer website http://soldc.sun.com/developer/support/slices.html. Joyce Steve Herring wrote: > 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? > > Steve

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