Re: Can't drop dbspace?

On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Kit Nevin wrote: > Due to a couple of circumstances, a dbspace we've created can't be > dropped...we're running online 7.22 on Solaris 2.6 using raw disks > partitions. The circumstances were a) root was still the partition owner > when the dbspace was created (and was changed to informix prior to the > attempt to drop the space) and b) 2 links to the same raw partition > were defined (different names). The result is that no matter who we are > as owners, root or informix, we can't drop the dbspace...get a cryptic > "internal error" message. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Kit Nevin > kit.nevin@attws.com Were the links created by the same owner?? Maybe Informix cannot drop the chunk because it has 2 pointers to the same device, with different permissions. Just my guess. John in sunny Australia ( well for now anyway.)