RE: IDS on AIX 5.2 Offsets? lv types?

malcolm weallans wrote > Also, any ideas on quick ways to change the offset of a > chunk? I have a particularly Grotty problem at one of the > larger mission critical 24x7 sites where the only chunk with > an offset of 0 is the first chunk of rootdbs. And they > definitely will encounter the problem as they intend to roll > out the existing machine and roll in a faster machine but using the > same disks. > > I have thought of doing an archive and then a restore to a > different structure using IDS 9.4 but that would involve a > large amount of downtime. That is unless somebody can give > me a way of restoring rootdbs without restoring the data. Informix mirroring is the way. Some dick head at our company set up about 20 or 30 chunks with the wrong offset. The fault was not discovered until a problem occurred 3 months after going live. Mirroring allowed all the chunks to be corrected without taking Informix down. I am still here to tell the tale :-) Colin Bull ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all known viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System. ________________________________________________________________________ sending to informix-list