Re: Use of Veritas to create raw partitions?

In article <332D8249.52C7@goldway.com>, Mike J Oropeza <moropeza@GoldWay.com> writes: > Tom Krotchko wrote: >> >> Using the Veritas logical volume manager, what is the correct procedure >> to create raw paritions for use with Informix unde Solaris? >> >> It looks as if you just create a Volume containing a single Sub-Disk/Plex, >> but I wondered if this was the best way, or were there some performance >> considerations using this method? > > This works well, as I've used them with Oracle databases. The only > problems I've encountered is that the device-special files' ownership is > re-assigned to root when the system is rebooted. I added an rc script to > chown them back to oracle. You ought to change the ownership within Volume Manager. Just go into Volume Properties and edit the owner/group/permissions fields. (Or use vxedit set user=oracle.) (In some areas Volume Manager is really neat. One thing I would like to see is that when you create a UFS filesystem you get to tweak the newfs parameters. At the moment the newfs stage has to be done by hand to get it right.) -- -Peter Tribble HGMP Computing Services http://www.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/~ptribble/