Try extending it by a smaller amount, say 100MB.

At 09:42 AM 2/21/2000 -0000, you wrote:
>My server has crashed and I'm unable to extend the log space as its over
>5GB.
>How can I recover ?
>
># dsmserv extend log /adsm/db3/log28.dsm 250
>ANR7800I DSMSERV generated at 18:14:25 on Sep 23 1999.
>
>ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager for AIX-RS/6000
>Version 3, Release 1, Level 2.42
>
>ANR0900I Processing options file dsmserv.opt.
>ANR0200I Recovery log assigned capacity is 5272 megabytes.
>ANR0201I Database assigned capacity is 34000 megabytes.
>ANR0306I Recovery log volume mount in progress.
>ANR9999D admstart.c(2593): Error 35 from lvmAddVol.
>ANR7835I ADSM thread 183 terminated in response to server shutdown.
>ANR7835I ADSM thread 184 terminated in response to server shutdown.
>ANR0991I ADSM server shutdown complete.
>
>Regards
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Bohm [mailto:bohm AT US.IBM DOT COM]
>Sent: 20 October 1999 17:20
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Re: Recovery log beyond 5GB.
>
>
>It is a physical limit restricted by the data structures
>that are stored in the "LVM fixed area" on each data base and
>recovery log volume (that extra 1M that you have to add to these
>volumes).  You can see the limits using the undocumented command
>
>SHOW LVMFA
>
>You will also see it is 5.3G not 5.5G (if that makes a difference
>to you).  It is a recognized requirement to increase this limit.
>I can not make any commitments as to when this limit can be increased
>but it would most likely have to be done in a new release not in a PTF
>since this is a change that could not be backed off.
>
>David Bohm
>ADSM server development
>
>>Many people have commented about the fact that there is a 5.5 GB limit on
>>the logs.
>>
>>Noone has asked the question that's been bugging me for months:
>>
>>
>>        Why????
>>
>>
>>Is the limit an arbitrary one (read: "No one will ever need more than 640kb
>>of RAM!") or is there a genuine reason for this? <sigh>....
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