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Re: RAW vs. JFS question

2004-01-22 12:24:55
Subject: Re: RAW vs. JFS question
From: Stef Coene <stef.coene AT DOCUM DOT ORG>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:24:00 +0100
On Thursday 22 January 2004 15:38, Bill Boyer wrote:
> The "new" TSM runing guide recommends using RAW volumes for performance
> reasons. I have a client that doesn't want to go RAW because the JFS
> logging goes away. I'm not that AIX savy to be able to argue one way or the
> other with him...
>
> Going RAW for performance, does that take away from recoverability in the
> case of system crashes or filesystem problems?
And what about the DirectIO and AsyncIO?  If you use DirectIO, don't you
bypass the file system cache?

Stef

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