bob.roberts@ham.honda.com (Bardwick) wrote in message news:<888bc275.0403041253.5b267df8@posting.google. com>...
> Info:
> Aix 4.3.3
> file system is jfs.
> (forgive me, I'm a solaris kinda guy)
>
> I forgot to turn on largefiles for a /udb file system. I am wondering
> (hoping) that I can edit /etc/filesystems to largefiles, umount/mount,
> possibly reboot. If not I can backup/nuke/make/restore with no
> issuses, just hoping it won't be that time consuming.
>
> Tried smitty jfs, but unable to change it.

To enable large files, you have to use the flag "-a bf=true" on the
crfs command, it is not possible to do it on the fly or by changing
and rebooting. It depends how much data is in the filesystem ast to
how long it will take to achieve the backup and restore.

Steve