Re: cilinder 0 and raw devices

Mark Johnson wrote:
>
> > Anyway, my question is: is it specific Sybase bug,
> > or one should never allocate cilinder 0 to a raw device of any database
> > vendor (Oracle, Informix, etc)? Thanks in advance.This is specific to raw devices with databases, oracle has the
> same issue.
>
> You definitely do not want to use cylinder 0!

no,not a specific sybase bug cylinder 0 is where the partition map is kept,
if you give that to sybase raw device it will get overwritten.

/mehdi. Received on Mon Sep 30 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST