Fw: Limited number of 2 GB chunks on big disks

["Vasyl Shulzhenko" <vasilis@softline.kiev.ua>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Hannes Visagie <hvisagie@mibco.org.za>
Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
Sent: 7 июня 2000 г. 1:02
Subject: RE: Limited number of 2 GB chunks on big disks


>
> No, not on the versions of UNIX I know.
>
> On SUN you can use partition 2 also, but that will only give you 16Gig.
>  Use Veritas Volume Manager.  Just find out if VVM supports extra slices
on
> your platform.
>
> Use a smart raid controller.  With Compaq you can stripe, say 4 {mirrored}
> * 9 Gig = 36 Gig {RAID 10} drives together and split the stripe set into
18
> * 2 Gig logical luns.  These logical luns will look to the system as a
> drive on its own.  You can even slice/partition them further.
>
> Remember, more smaller drives, more spindles and better performance.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miran Nikolic [SMTP:miran.nikolic@telekom.si]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 9:34 AM
> To: informix-list@iiug.org
> Subject: Limited number of 2 GB chunks on big disks
>
>                     Hi
>
> Is it possible to use chunks bigger than 2 GB. There is a limited number
> of partitions (on UNIX) on big disks (36 GB). I can't use whole disk if
> I want to have chunks on raw devices. Is there only solution to have
> chunks on files,  what about performance ?!
>
>         thanks
>             Miran
>
>
>