Re: Question for Sun Experts

Volume Manager (Sun's distribution of Veritas) comes with the A5000. In article <37C30986.4985CD79@bloomberg.net>, kagel@bloomberg.net wrote: > Solaris only supports 8 partitions per device and Solaris convention > dictates that the third partition is the whole drive for archiving. But > even if you ignore the convention that only gives you access to 16GB out > of 70. > > You need a volume manager that will allow you to partition the RAID0 > pseudo-device into at least 35 2GB or smaller logical devices. Veritas > VM or any other decent VM can do that for you. Sun distributes it's own > VM which is a version of Veritas, usually a few releases behind. > > Art S. Kagel > > Bashar wrote: > > > > Hi there, > > > > Platform: > > > > IDS7.31 > > Sun E450 > > Solaris 7 > > A5000 external disk array with 8 x 9GB disks. > > > > We have setup a Raid 0 metadevice, using DiskSuite, of 70GB. We end up with > > a /dev/md/rdsk/d0 device, which gives us access to 70GB. > > > > However, IDS has an addressing limitation of Offset + Size < 2GB. Therefore, > > we are only able to allocate the first 2GB of our metadevice to IDS. > > > > The question is: How can IDS use the rest of the metadevice? We need to > > subdivide the metadevice in 2GB pieces, but tech support (this is a rented > > machine) tells us it is not possible. I find that hard to believe. > > > > Of course, we do not want to use a unix filesystem. > > > > Thanks for any help. > > > > -- > > Bashar Chalabi > > CTL, London > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't.