RE: Getting around 8 partitions or 2 GIG Chunks

Posted in 1999

jmhorn — Mon, 16 Aug 1999 20:39:20 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

I think that veritos will help you get over this problem. Although I am not very familar with the product, it is akin to HP's LVM but is not included in the base Solaris OS. I have also heard that is rather troublesome to setup. mac- > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org > [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org]On Behalf Of Neil Truby > Sent: Sunday, August 15, 1999 1:43 PM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: Getting around 8 partitions or 2 GIG Chunks > > > > Octav Chiriac wrote in message <7p6li0$j4$1@news.xmission.com>... > > > >I think you just have to use your volume manager or 'prtvtoc' to > >make slices of 2GB and use them to place your chunks. > > > >Didn't I understand something ? > > Are you familiar with Solaris? Although I've not used it beyond 2.5, it's > not possible with its disk-slicing tool to create more than 8 slices on a > disk, and in fact by convention the upper limit is 7. > > Neil > >