Re: Getting around 8 partitions or 2 GIG Chunks

I think you just have to use your volume manager or 'prtvtoc' to make slices of 2GB and use them to place your chunks. Didn't I understand something ? Best Regards, Octav On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 08:39:46AM -0500, Marie Usher wrote: > > So what is the answer to having a large database? Is it hardware or are we > not limited to only 8 partitions as Solaris says because then one would be > limited to a 16 GIG Database server and that is small. > > marie > At 01:15 AM 8/15/99 +0100, you wrote: > >The rule that you are most likely to fall foul of is that the chunksize + > >offset must be less than 2GBytes. So, if you have only two chunks, you are > >limited to a 4GByte database server. > > > >Better get that sys admin manual out ....! > > > >Neil Truby > >Londis Stores > >Hampton Hill, UK > > > >Marie Usher wrote in message <7p4m8v$99u$1@news.xmission.com>... > >> > >>I have a database that i need to reorganize on 2 very large raw chunks. > >>Presently the > >>database is spread over 9 chunks. What is the concept using offset. How > >>do i know where to start another dbspace. Is there a rule? > >> > >>marie > >> > > -- Octav Chiriac Phone: (373) 2 22 99 67 NetInfo S.R.L. Fax: (373) 2 21 36 59 Chisinau (373) 2 22 84 88 Moldova, Republic of mailto:com@netinfo-moldova.com

Octav Chiriac wrote in message <7p6li0$j4$1@news.xmission.com>... > >I think you just have to use your volume manager or 'prtvtoc' to >make slices of 2GB and use them to place your chunks. > >Didn't I understand something ? Are you familiar with Solaris? Although I've not used it beyond 2.5, it's not possible with its disk-slicing tool to create more than 8 slices on a disk, and in fact by convention the upper limit is 7. Neil