Re: Using Large Disks under Solaris

You will not get round the partition problem with DiskSuite, at least not on Solaris for Sparc Solaris x86 is another matter. You need to get smaller disks or Veritas. Paul Watson WF Software Ltd Tel: +44 1436 674729 Fax: +44 1436 678729 www.wfsoftware.com/informix # If you broke it, hide the evidence >>> Richard Auslander <rich@airflash.com> 11/02/99 02:25AM >>> I wanted to thank everyone for their responses. May I ask a follow up question? We are on a very tight startup budget, and would prefer to be able to use the Volume Manager (DiskSuite) included with Solaris. However, our System Administrator has suggested that DiskSuite lacks the needed functionality; i.e., it will not permit us to partition a Solaris hard disk into more than seven or eight partitions. If anyone out there has used it in this manner, and can point me towards a particular function within this utility, I would be most appreciative. Thanks again to all in advance ... Rich Richard Auslander wrote: > Greetings all. Perhaps someone (besides Obnoxo) can help me with this? > It would be greatly appreciated. > > I have observed that Informix has a chunk size limitation of around > 2.01GB. In addition, on Solaris, we are able to define no more than 7 > (and typically 6) partitions on a given hard disk. Although I am very > aware of how to use 'onspaces' to combine multiple chunks into a single > dataspace, it still appears that Informix under Solaris can support a > maximum physical disk size of around (6 * 2.01 GB), which comes out to > [I goed to colledge] around 12GB, assuming I *want* to make all the > chunks the maximum of 2GB, which I often don't. We recently purchased a > Sun E450, which we ordered with 18GB disks. In practive, I've been able > to use only around 60-70% of the disk space purchased, and as disk > densities increase, the problem will only worsen. > > Can someone pleeeez tell me that I'm wrong about this limit? ;-) > > Rich > -- > Richard C. Auslander > Database Manager > > AirFlash, Inc. > 1733 Woodside Rd., Suite #110 > Redwood City, CA 94061 > (650) 556-7928 > > www.airflash.com -- Richard C. Auslander Database Manager AirFlash, Inc. 1733 Woodside Rd., Suite #110 Redwood City, CA 94061 (650) 556-7928 www.airflash.com