this may have to do with the number of dasd that can be defined for the
standard major number for 3390.  Out of the 256 available minor numbers,
only 64 can be actually be used for each dasd.  With approx. 7 gig for each
3390-9, 64*7=448gig with LVM.

Use 3390-27 or scsi.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Kreuter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 4:13 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: linux db/2 limitations
>
> I had an interesting meeting today concerning a possible
> project moving some existing DB/2 data on servers and z/os to
> linux DB/2 under good ole z/vm. Someone on the project was
> told that linux on db/2 had a 450Gigabyte limitation with the
> size of a database, or tables, or ...
>
> This makes little or no sense to me ( 450Gigabyte isn't all
> that big really). Also there are 1,000 tables scattered
> around 100+ databases. Hey - I am not the architect here.
>
> Is anyone out there running linux DB/2 with aggregate sized
> DBs exceeding 450G? Anyone aware of limits running DB/2 on
> linux under z/VM?
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
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