dbspaces on NT
Leos Urban asked about 2GB dbspace and 4GB NTFS limits on IDS 7.30 with a 10GB disk. Andrew Lawrenson said the NTFS 4GB limit applies only to the boot partition. Chris Jenkins and Art S. Kagel explained the 2GB limit is per chunk, and a dbspace can hold up to 2048 chunks, so use several chunks of 2GB or less.
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Hello, somewhere I read :-)) that IX DBSPACE is limited to 2GB and NTFS to 4GB. I have 10GB HDD for Informix only (IDSWE 7.30) and PII server. Exists better solution than 5x 2GB NTFS? Thanks Leos
Leos Urban wrote in message <7q56qg$8j5$1@adis.cesnet.cz>... >Hello, >somewhere I read :-)) that IX DBSPACE is limited to 2GB and NTFS to 4GB. >I have 10GB HDD for Informix only (IDSWE 7.30) and PII server. >Exists better solution than 5x 2GB NTFS? >Thanks >Leos > NTFS is only limited to 4GB for the boot partition (drive C:). You can have other drives *much* larger (we have a 32Gb drive D: with no problem) Andy -- -- - Remove nospam. from address when replying by email - Any Opinions Expressed within are Mine and not necessarily those of my Employer
Leos Urban wrote in message <7q56qg$8j5$1@adis.cesnet.cz>... >Hello, >somewhere I read :-)) that IX DBSPACE is limited to 2GB and NTFS to 4GB. >I have 10GB HDD for Informix only (IDSWE 7.30) and PII server. >Exists better solution than 5x 2GB NTFS? >Thanks >Leos A *chunk* is limited to 2Gb but a dbspace can have many, many chunks. If you need a 10 Gb dbspace, created 5 x 2Gb chunks and put them in the same dbspace.
Leos Urban wrote: > > Hello, > somewhere I read :-)) that IX DBSPACE is limited to 2GB and NTFS to 4GB. > I have 10GB HDD for Informix only (IDSWE 7.30) and PII server. > Exists better solution than 5x 2GB NTFS? Informix dbspaces are not limited to 2GB, each of the chunks that make up a dbspace is limited to 2GB but a dbspace can be made up of as many as 2048 chunks for a max dbspace size of 4TB. You can create a larger filesystem and add Informix chunks as 5 or more files less than or equal to 2GB in that filesystem. Art S. Kagel