Why is it that I can only format a data base volume/file in a JFS
     environment to just over 1GB ?
     Have I missed something somewhere ?
     The logical volume is 128 LP's at 16 MB each with 4096 NBPI
     (last I calculated that should hold a 1979 MB adsm db )

     & I've seen what I'd call a performance miracle...
     previous placement of the adsm db & log files was rather poor...
     well, monday I finished a little work on one of the servers and it cut
     I/O wait time on the processor by more than 50% :-)
     this adsm box has a 8 GB db and a 1 GB log (yes, the log is overkill)
     configured as follows:

          A0 --[2-1GB dbfiles]-[2-1GB dbfiles]-[1-1GB log]-[stgp]-...
     SSA0
          A1 --[2-1GB db]-[2-1GB db]-[stg]-........

          B0 --[stg]-[stg]-...
          B1 --[stg]-[stg]-...

          A0 --[2-1GB dbcpy]-[2-1GB dbcpy]-[1-1GB logcpy]-[stgp]-...
     SSA1
          A1 --[2-1GB dbcpy]-[2-1GB dbcpy]-[stg]-........

          B0
          B1
     I'm tossing @ 22GB to the wind currently because we're using 4.5GB
     drives but it will be used to store adsm historical data...
     Truely, I was amazed at the difference it made by spreading out the
     DB.  I strongly suggest others try it, espically if you currently
     trying to be dasd conservationists and have everything on 1 physical
     device.

     later
          Dwight