Re: Informix 7.13 on HP 10.01

Steven Hansen wrote: > > Hello > > I'm setting up Informix 7.13 on a HP box running HP-UX 10.01. I have a > 'learning environment' set up using 'cooked' disk space. I want to use raw > disk access in my production environment. I'm wondering if anyone has any > experience with raw access using HP's Logical Volume Manager and if so are > you calculating the offset using the 5% LVM overhead mentioned in HP's tech > doc's. > > Also according to HP, they have a bad block region set aside toward the end > of the Logical Volume, it would apear that I can not use the bad block > translation feature because there is no way to keep Informix from writing > on that area of the chunk (the end of the Logical Volume). > > Any thoughts on the above would be very helpfull Steve, one caveat on setting up the LVM - A logical volume can still be fractured over several areas of the disk. It will look like a single, comtiguous device (the beauty of LVM) but will still have the drag of any fragmented file system. Make the volumes truly contiguous on each physical volume. -- Jake