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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers offset - informix chunk Post 33946 by Perderabo on Monday 27th of January 2003 10:44:05 AM
Old 01-27-2003
With SunOS you can use the format command to slice a disk up any way that you want. Ideally, you should create a slice that belongs to Informix alone and then use an offset of zero since Informix can use the entire slice.

If you couldn't define your own slices, you might need, as one example, to have one area serve as both swap and an informix chunk. If the area was, say, 2 gigs, you might define a 1 gig swap area. Then informix would use the same area with an offset of 1 gig.

The only problem you might encounter is the disk label itself. You don't want to overwrite that. If your slice 1 starts on cylinder zero, you must tell informix to skip the first sector so that you don't clobber the label. I would move slice 1 off of cylinder zero and still use an Informix offset of zero. If you really must start the slice on cylinder zero, then use an offset of 512 to preserve the label.
 

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cmdk(7D)							      Devices								  cmdk(7D)

NAME
cmdk - common disk driver SYNOPSIS
cmdk@target, lun : [ partition | slice ] DESCRIPTION
The cmdk device driver is a common interface to various disk devices. The driver supports magnetic fixed disks and magnetic removable disks. The block-files access the disk using the system's normal buffering mechanism and are read and written without regard to physical disk records. There is also a "raw" interface that provides for direct transmission between the disk and the user's read or write buffer. A sin- gle read or write call usually results in one I/O operation; raw I/O is therefore considerably more efficient when many bytes are transmit- ted. The names of the block files are found in /dev/dsk; the names of the raw files are found in /dev/rdsk. I/O requests to the magnetic disk must have an offset and transfer length that is a multiple of 512 bytes or the driver returns an EINVAL error. Slice 0 is normally used for the root file system on a disk, slice 1 as a paging area (for example, swap), and slice 2 for backing up the entire fdisk partition for Solaris software. Other slices may be used for usr file systems or system reserved area. Fdisk partition 0 is to access the entire disk and is generally used by the fdisk(1M) program. FILES
/dev/dsk/cndn[s|p]n block device (IDE) /dev/rdsk/cndn[s|p]n raw device (IDE) where: cn controller n dn lun n (0-7) sn UNIX system slice n (0-15) pn fdisk partition(0) /kernel/drv/cmdk 32-bit kernel module. /kernel/drv/amd64/cmdk 64-bit kernel module. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Architecture |x86 | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
fdisk(1M), mount(1M), lseek(2), read(2), write(2), readdir(3C), scsi(4), vfstab(4), attributes(5), dkio(7I) SunOS 5.10 9 Oct 2004 cmdk(7D)
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