every logical volume that contains no filesystem is per definition a raw device ...
change the permission of the device to the database ownership (like on the already existent RAW devices) and initialise them from within the database ... thats it
Ok, great!
One more question.
When i create logical volume, it is by default created as block device.
But i see that all my raw devices assigned to the database are character-special devices.
Example, in my /dev directory i have following:
brw-rw---- 1 root system 10, 12 Dec 09 2005 lvinformix0
crw-rw---- 1 informix informix 10, 12 Mar 16 06:30 rlvinformix0
From a given example, only the rlvinformix0 device is assigned to the database.
So, how do i make this new LV to be a character device?
It worked just fine!
The only "problem" was that i didn't know that every new logical volume after its creation will appear as block- AND as character device.
Thanks for the info!