On many platforms (Solaris, Linux, etc) You
can't break large disk (70 GB or 140 GB) into
proper number of partitions (raw devices)

On Linux, the limit for SCSI drive is 16
Partitions - that is, You can't use HDD's larger
then 32 GB

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Alexey Sonkin
Senior Database Administrator


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Truby [mailto:neil.truby@ardenta.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 12:11 PM
> To: informix-list@iiug.org
> Subject: Re: 9.40 buggy!
>
> Can anyone (apart from Jonathan Lefler!) please explain to me why the
> removal of the 2GByte chunk limit is so great?
> I agree that the limit is a pain in the arse for database administrators.
> But, apart from fewer chunks to keep a track of, what other step-changes
> does it usher into our lives?
>
> --
> Neil Truby t:01932 724027
> Director m:07798 811708
> Ardenta Limited e:neil.truby@ardenta.com
>
>
> "Christopher" <christopher.coleman@mediware.com> wrote in message
> news:a727ee4f.0311200844.47da044e@posting.google.c om...
> > Rich Campbell opined:
> > >Better off on 7.31.
> >
> > Unfortunately, the support on IDS 7.31 is ending. Although there is
> > still some time, the length of our development cycle and the need to
> > upgrade our customers is pushing us to migrate.
> >
> > Fernando Nunes questioned the value of the original post:
> > >Either 7.31 or FUD?
> >
> > At the tech conference, I talked to as many people as I could find who
> > have migrated. Given the almost universal loathing with which the
> > victims described their experiences migrating to 9.3, I was surprised
> > that almost every user liked moving to 9.4. Not that there were no
> > bumps, unsurprising with it still on interim 2 (my experience suggests
> > avioding even testing anything prior to UC2).
> >
> > Then drooled over two of my favourite features:
> > > Agreed.....redirected restores . . . . no more 2G chunk limit.....
> >
> > Let's not forget the end of the B-tree cleaner, the removal of the 2
> > GB limit, truly long lvarchars, an end to the 2GB limit, new datatypes
> > and built-in functions, and what was the other one? Oh, yeah. No more
> > 2 GB limit.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Christopher Coleman
> >
> > Database Analyst
> > Pharmacy Division
> > Mediware Information Systems, Inc.

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"Alexey Sonkin" <alexeis@grandvirtual.com> wrote in message
news:bpj3ms$ee0$1@terabinaries.xmission.com...
>
> On many platforms (Solaris, Linux, etc) You
> can't break large disk (70 GB or 140 GB) into
> proper number of partitions (raw devices)
>
> On Linux, the limit for SCSI drive is 16
> Partitions - that is, You can't use HDD's larger
> then 32 GB

Yeah, but you can use soft partitions on solaris to get around this, and
no-one uses IDS on new stuff like Linux, they're all busy implementing DB2
Express.

Neil Truby wrote:

> "Alexey Sonkin" <alexeis@grandvirtual.com> wrote in message
> news:bpj3ms$ee0$1@terabinaries.xmission.com...
>>
>> On many platforms (Solaris, Linux, etc) You
>> can't break large disk (70 GB or 140 GB) into
>> proper number of partitions (raw devices)
>>
>> On Linux, the limit for SCSI drive is 16
>> Partitions - that is, You can't use HDD's larger
>> then 32 GB
>
> Yeah, but you can use soft partitions on solaris to get around this, and
> no-one uses IDS on new stuff like Linux, they're all busy implementing DB2
> Express.

You seem to have run out of medication again...

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