Re: Question for Sun Experts

You have to either: - Buy Veritas - Use files instead of raw SC > Hi there, > > Platform: > > IDS7.31 > Sun E450 > Solaris 7 > A5000 external disk array with 8 x 9GB disks. > > We have setup a Raid 0 metadevice, using DiskSuite, of 70GB. We end up with > a /dev/md/rdsk/d0 device, which gives us access to 70GB. > > However, IDS has an addressing limitation of Offset + Size < 2GB. Therefore, > we are only able to allocate the first 2GB of our metadevice to IDS. > > The question is: How can IDS use the rest of the metadevice? We need to > subdivide the metadevice in 2GB pieces, but tech support (this is a rented > machine) tells us it is not possible. I find that hard to believe. > > Of course, we do not want to use a unix filesystem. > > Thanks for any help. > > -- > Bashar Chalabi > CTL, London