Re: ADSM >2GB volume support
1998-08-05 17:52:40
Does support for volumes >2GB exist for ADSM on Windows NT? When I try
to define large disk volumes to ADSM using the GUI Wizard it does not
work. Thanks.
Allan.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry Fruchtman [SMTP:bf AT US.IBM DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 9:59 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: ADSM >2GB volume support
>
> Some historical notes:
>
> Support for >2GB raw logical volumes and JFS files
> for server db, log, and storage volumes was first released
> in ADSM V2 level 13. It is present in all levels of version 3.
> On a migration install of AIX 4.2/4.3 from 4.1/3.2, symbolic
> links were not updated to point to the AIX 4.2+ specific
> versions of dsmfmt and dsmserv ( installed as dsmfmt.42
> and dsmserv.42 ). They would confinue to point to dsmfmt.41
> and dsmserv.41.
> The 4.2+ executables use new APIs in
> AIX that require 64-bit operands to handle addressing of
> files with offsets beyond 2GB. New executables were
> needed since the 4.2+ specific versions won't even load
> in lower levels of AIX.
>
> Barry Fruchtman
> ADSM Development
> bf AT us.ibm DOT com
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