Re: Configuring raw devices - Solstice Disk Suite

Thinking way back when I did this about a year ago and using Solaris7... We had the OS and Informix in the system disk and a series of DiskSuite mirrors for data (rootdbs, datadbs, indxdbs, logdbs, physdbs). DiskSuite was all fine and dandy for mirroring, but I was forced to follow all of Solaris's links to chmod and chown the actual devices to suite Informix. After that it was up without a problem. SC > Hello everybody, > I have posted the "Configuring raw devices" message a couple days ago. > A lot of thanks to everyone who responded. > > Well, the problem continued... > As I've mentioned in one of my previous emails - we were trying to use a > software RAID created by Solstice Disk Suite on Solaris 8. > When software created the RAID1, it referenced it's devices as the pseudo > devices. > I spend about a day trying to initialize a new instance of Informix 9.21 > using a link to a raw device that was created by Solstice, but every time > had : > "Assert Failed: I/O error, Primary Chunk '/db/data/rootdbs' -- Offline" > After a little experimenting, I linked rootdbs not to a pseudo device, but > to and actual raw partition that is not a part of RAID1 as: > rootdbs -> /dev/rdsk/c1t24d0s3 (2Gb partition) > And after that I was able to start my new instance of Informix. > Of course I can use Informix mirror to secure the data. But in this case my > partitions are not a part of any RAID, so they are not even striped. > If you will be able to advise some workaround, it would be extremely > helpful. > Have a good weekend everyone, > Sincerely, > Elena.