ADSM-L

Re: Disk volumes greater than 2Gb?

1997-04-29 09:34:16
Subject: Re: Disk volumes greater than 2Gb?
From: "James A. Mahlen" <jam AT CLAMSOUTH DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 08:34:16 -0500
If you are using AIX (v4.1 or lower) the 2GB filesystem is an AIX Limit.

I haven't tried it on v4.2 yet so don't hold me to it.


>
> Hi (again)
>
> For DISK based volumes ADSM seems to be limited to 2Gb files, e.g.,
>
>         ./dsmfmt -m -data /disk3/adsm/backup01.dsm 4000
>
> gives me
>
>         File size for /disk3/adsm/backup03.dsm must be less than 2 GB
>
> And trying to use a raw partition > 2Gb gives just "volume not available".
>
> Does anyone know if this limit is to be raised?  Is it only present on
> Solaris?  Is it only me?
>
> It would be nice to be able to use 4Gb disks.  Using 2 x 2Gb files on
> the same disk seems to be a *bad* idea --- ADSM wants to use them both
> at the same time and so throughput drops.
>
> Russell
>


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