Adaptive Server does not use the buildmaster binary to build the master device. Instead, Sybase has incorporated the buildmaster functionality in the dataserver binary.
The dataserver command allows you to create master devices and databases with logical pages of size 2K, 4K, 8K, or 16K. Larger logical pages allow you to create larger rows, which can improve your performance because Adaptive Server accesses more data each time it reads a page. For example, a 16K page can hold 8 times the amount of data as a 2K page, an 8K page holds 4 times as much data as a 2K page, and so on, for all the sizes for logical pages.
You have to exercise caution when setting the page sizes.
There are hazards in using larger devices on a 2Gb-limit platform. If you attempt to configure a logical device larger than 2Gb where Adaptive Server does not support large devices, you may experience the following problems:
Data corruption on databases (some releases give no error message).
Inability to dump or load data from the database
