RE: Changing the path of a chunk from onstat -d output.
Posted in 2003
Why not create a mirrored chunk(chunks), drop the original
crate a new chunk with corrct name,
drop mirrors
Mirroring is you friend :-)
(This assumes mirroring is available on this version and you have
enough disk to mirror the db dpace )
Robert White wrote
> Hopefully this hasn't been covered before as I couldn't find
> the answer
> in google.
>
> We have certain naming standards here for chunk names on a
> given server.
> We base some scripted infrastructure around these standards.
> Unfortunately a chunk has been added to a server whereby the link
> pointing to the actual raw device has the wrong name, which is showing
> in the onstat output. This is causing glitches in some of
> our scripts.
>
> My question is, "Is it possible to update the fname field in
> syschunks,
> create the corrected link and they bounce the server? If this proves
> successful then remove the original incorrect link?".
>
> Has anyone tried this?
>
> The server version is 7.30 running on Solaris 2.8.
>
>
sending to informix-list