On AIX 4.2, dsmfmt should be a symlink to "dsmfmt.42", which will format
>2GB.   Likewise, dsmserv should be a symlink to dsmserv.42, which will
understand the >2GB files.

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Gene Mangum
Gene Mangum
University of Michigan Medical Center


On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, L. Scott Emmons wrote:

> On Wednesday, March 11, 1998 8:08 AM, abdukm0b AT ARAMCO.COM DOT SA wrote:
> > Now that we can define logical volumes more than 2.0GB (AIX 4.2), we like
> > to consolidate our ADSM db volumes. My question is :
> > Should we do the consolidation before migrating to v3 or after the
> > migration?
>
> We run our ADSM database on top of JFS. We found that "dsmfmt" won't let
> you create a db file larger than 2GB, just so you know. Note this is with
> ver2. I don't know if ver3 has support for >2GB db files. Again, this
> probably has no bearing if you run your DB on raw LV's...
>
> Thanks,
> -Scott
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