In level 13 for AIX ( not yet available, availability date
not set ), this limit will be partially raised ( command line
only ) if you have AIX 4.2 or greater.  It will be raised
for other platforms as well ( no date available - not in level 13 though ).

Barry Fruchtman
ADSM Development


On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, James A. Mahlen wrote:

> 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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