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Re: TSM and device block sizes

2000-05-28 20:51:23
Subject: Re: TSM and device block sizes
From: Richard Sims <rbs AT BU DOT EDU>
Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 20:51:23 -0400
>It explicitly states that performance will be poor if you use
>small block sizes.  Now looking at the TSM documentation I see that TSM
>uses a block size of 32Kb and that it overrides what you set in AIX for the
>drive itself.  Is this right?  Can I change the blocksize somewhere in TSM?

Could you specify what TSM documentation you were looking at?
And what does an AIX 'lsattr' command on your system say that
TSM is actually using for tape drive blksize?
    Richard Sims, BU
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