Re: Solaris DiskSuite and Oracle: Any comments ?

From: Jonathan Lewis <jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 22:53:31 GMT
Message-ID: <01bd7df8$8c60afb0$0300a8c0@WORKSTATION>

Ted Kender <tskender_at_iupui.edu> wrote in article <35553AA6.66DD_at_iupui.nospam.edu>...
> Jonathan Lewis wrote:

> > If someone can correct me I'll be delighted, but I understand
> > that DiskSuite can only support 7 partitions per physical
> > device, and a single logical raw device can only be defined
> > as a collection of complete partitions.
> This may be a unix thing... I've never seen more than 7 slices
listed
> when doing a printvtoc.
>

Spot on, Ted -
I've since been told that this limit is down to Solaris (at least the 2.5 version that the site is currently running).

Jonathan Lewis Received on Tue May 12 1998 - 17:53:31 CDT