Re: Using Large Disks under Solaris
En Richard Auslander va escriure el dia 25 Oct 99, a les 12:27:
> Greetings all. Perhaps someone (besides Obnoxo) can help me with
> this? It would be greatly appreciated.
>
> I have observed that Informix has a chunk size limitation of around
> 2.01GB. In addition, on Solaris, we are able to define no more than 7
> (and typically 6) partitions on a given hard disk. Although I am very
> aware of how to use 'onspaces' to combine multiple chunks into a
> single dataspace, it still appears that Informix under Solaris can
> support a maximum physical disk size of around (6 * 2.01 GB), which
> comes out to [I goed to colledge] around 12GB, assuming I *want* to
> make all the chunks the maximum of 2GB, which I often don't. We
> recently purchased a Sun E450, which we ordered with 18GB disks. In
> practive, I've been able to use only around 60-70% of the disk space
> purchased, and as disk densities increase, the problem will only
> worsen.
>
> Can someone pleeeez tell me that I'm wrong about this limit? ;-)
>
> Rich
> --
> Richard C. Auslander
> Database Manager
>
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>
>
Use Sun Volum Manager (Originaly from Veritas) to magane large
disks under Solaris + Informix (Oracle have the same limitation).
(Volum manager it's expensive addon)
A bad solution is the use of cooked-files like chunks.
Take care.
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