Re: Question for Sun Experts

Bashar 24 Aug 99, 19:17: > 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 > > If i'm not wrong SUN have a product named "Volum Manager" or something like that. With this produc you can make smalls partitions, the inverse of metadevices, from the same partitions. (i think that produc is standard with disks arrays A5000 but i'm not sure). Be fun. --------------------------------------- Isidre PONS ROCA BASE - Gesti' d'Ingressos Locals (Diputacio de Tarragona) Servei de Sistemes de Informacio Av President Lluis Companys 12-C 43005 - Tarragona SPAIN Tel # +34 977 236731 Fax # +34 977 227302 http://www.altanet.org ipons@dtgna.altanet.org ---------------------------------------