Re: raw devices - general questions

David Williams wrote: > ... > > >each. Create (2) chuncks, each of which references the raw device file > >for each partition (slices). The offsets will be zero for each. > > Each slice also contains a header. On Solaris 2.5 this is 8K. > Also not all versions of UNIX support 'slices'. Again the mention of > slices sounds like your operating system is SunOs/Solaris. > > >I havn't tried it, but I would think it should work. > > -- > David Williams I know this is going on a tangent a little off of the newsgroup topic but please bear with me. Each slice has a header of 8k? I've always used an offset of 0K in informix (I start slice 0 on cylinder 1 and every other slice on the first available cylinder). I'm doing this now under Sparc Solaris 2.4 and did it under Solaris 2.3. When I first started to work with slices and raw devices I would give Informix an offset of 0 for slice 0 starting in cylinder 0, with this I would get a message but Informix worked OK. Should I get a message without the 8k offset?