Is there really a need to run it on a JFS filesystem?  We run our on SSA disk 
with RAW partitions and it screams... 

-----Original Message-----
From: PINNI, BALANAND (SBCSI) [mailto:bp3965 AT SBC DOT COM]
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 1:46 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: DSMFMT takes forever ( 15 hours). 100 gb


I would first take a look at my Patches for AIX 5L and for Disk Drivers.
There were issues with 5.2 for 64 bit ,but for 5.1 that is not so. Did you
migrate to 5.1 from 433 ?

What is the Raid Level set? Can you pass on details ?

Balanand Pinni

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From: Dwight Cook [mailto:cookde AT US.IBM DOT COM]
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 1:27 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: DSMFMT takes forever ( 15 hours). 100 gb


All I can say is that the dsmfmt simply writes "Eric" over and over and
over again...

If things grind to a halt, it is probably, simply due to the I/O to the
drive/raid array/filesystem

Dwight




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Does anyone know of or had problems with formatting additional space for
diskpools ?

TSM server : AIX 5.1 ML3 64-bit enabled. 2GB memory 2 cpu H80

Disk type : 6 member raid set about 700 GB

JFS2

Trying to format 100gb diskpool. Each time I have tried it brings the TSM
server to almost a stand still. TSM is up on the box but nothing is running
during 8 hours of the format. Should be more than enough time to format
100gb of space.

Any ideas ?

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