Re: Moving Informix from SCO to Solaris, Need help

Posted in 2000

S . Kipper — Thu, 27 Jan 2000 12:36:02 -0800 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

> Just remember that Solaris cannot have more than 8 slices on one disk. So > it is useless to have disks larger than 16 Gig. This is without any RAID > configuration. You mean 7 slices. Slice 2 describes the whole disk (including VTOC information and such) and should therefore not be used :-)

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Art S. Kagel — Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:07:28 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

"S . Kipper" wrote: > > Just remember that Solaris cannot have more than 8 slices on one disk. So > > it is useless to have disks larger than 16 Gig. This is without any RAID > > configuration. > > You mean 7 slices. Slice 2 describes the whole disk (including VTOC > information and such) and should therefore not be used :-) Using partition 2 for the whole disk is not a requirement just an old BSD convention to make disk image backups easier. Since you will not be doing a disk image backup of the Informix devices you really CAN use all 8 partitions on Solaris. Art S. Kagel