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> At 10:29 AM 1/2/97 -0500, Joe Morris wrote:
> >I would strongly encourage you to get involved in attending some of the
> >USENIX Conferences. At least make sure you get someone to the LISA
> >Conference. Thousands turn out for this annual, week-long conference held
> >in the Fall. This is not just another circus like Interop, but real
> >administrators who come to learn and share admin experiences with others.
> >There were quite a few vendors this past year, but only 1 or 2 of them
> >dealt with enterprise backups--lousy ones at that. You can get more info
> >from http:///www.usenix.org.
>
> Several of our people went to LISA in Chicago this year. One rumor that
> came back from LISA was that ADSM failed, silently and hard, when it hit a
> million files stored. The rumor goes on, quoting IBM as saying they're not
> going to fix it. This is now part of the received wisdom around our site;
> frankly, I find it hard to believe based on the good experiences I have had
> setting up ADSM with 3494 libraries and 3590 drives.
>
> My guess is that the million file limit came from somone setting up an HSM
> client with only a million inodes, and when it hit a million files it quit
> accepting new ones. Either that or someone set up their db too small.
>
> I would be interested to hear from sites that are storing more than a
> million files, especially those that are storing >1E6 files via the HSM
> client. Also, if this story sounds familiar, and you know the details, I
> would be interested to hear about them as well. Also: is there an easy way
> to query a filespace or storage pool to see how many files are stored in
> that filespace/storage pool?
>
> Thanks,
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I have seen several posts from ADSM users, installations in Germany come most
rapidly to mind, where ADSM administrators have reported multiple millions of
files and many, many GBytes of data. I believe this rumor is almost certainly
false.
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