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Status Submitted
Workspace Db2
Components Serviceability
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 23, 2024

Improve SQL0293N when creating database on 4K sector size disk

On CREATE DATABASE db2 reports a very generic error message SQL0293N when there is a write access to a 4K sector size disk.

Instead should do a check when creating containers e.g. read 512 bytes, if this does not work, read 4K block. If 4K block can be read using direct IO while a 512 read failed, there is most likely a 4K sector size disk underneath the file system.

If this happens tell customer to verify if a 4K sector size disk got used and tell the customer to turn on set Db2 registry DB2_4K_DEVICE_SUPPORT to ON and accept the potential performance implications or use disks that accept smaller read/write requests.

Needed By Not sure -- Just thought it was cool