Re: max raw chunk size

Osama R. Mawlawi wrote: > > Hello Informix Gurus, > > I am considering the purchase of a 9 Gig disk drive on which I would > like to create a single raw 9 Gig database for images (blobs). I am > running Informix v5.0 under HPUX v9.05. Will I be able to do this? > Does the blob page size or other parameters affect the maximum chunk size? > Thanks in advance for any and all help (sorry if this is a naive > question). > > Osama Mawlawi The maximum amount of raw space you can add to a database as a chunk is 2 GB. You would have to provide offsets in order to slice that drive into 4 2GB and 1 1GB chunks. [unless you are one of the few platforms that supports 4GB chunks -- check in your releases directory] Rob. -- _________________________________ | Robert Donat | | rdonat@sigg.com | | http://sashimi.wwa.com/~donat | |_______________________________|