The limit is 255 but apar IC35394 was opened against a problem which causes
the journal daemon to crash
when configured with more than 15 drives (15 is ok, 16 or more crashes).

The fix for this should be included in the next ptf but you might want to
check with support to be sure.

Hope this helps ....

Pete Tanenhaus
Tivoli Storage Solutions Software Development
email: tanenhau AT us.ibm DOT com
tieline: 320.8778, external: 607.754.4213

"Those who refuse to challenge authority are condemned to conform to it"

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02/11/2003 01:13 PM ---------------------------

"Magura, Curtis" <curtis.magura AT LMCO DOT COM>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 02/11/2003
12:59:55 PM

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Subject:    Once Last Journal Question to Pete



Pete,

Since we've been trading notes on the Journal Service this morning once
last
question please. Is there a documented limit to the number of drives that
can added to the Journal service? I can't seem to get more than 10-11
drives
configured. After that the Journal service will fail to start. I've poked
around in the manuals a bit but haven't found anything that states there is
a limit. We've got a couple of fileservers pushing 20 drives.

Can you help clear this last question up?

Client 5.1.5.9 on both NT 4 and Win2K.
Server 5.1.5.4 on AIX.

Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Orlando, Fla.
 321-235-1203